It was a wonderful experience to go to Gamla Linkoping (the old town of Linkoping), where heritage buildings have been brought in and re-built with every possible care. There are several museums, housed in these old buildings, that visitors can walk into. In the whole area, many people who are in period costumes walk about; and today, when the ( Read more... )

I met

Laren Loveless

a very dynamic musician and percussionist, at the Bonfire event organized by the St.Louis Beacon. I decided to send him a video featuring Indian percussion instruments.

Featured are some of the percussion instruments of classical south Indian, and one of classical north Indian music.

It starts with

the Tabla the ( Read more... )

Here's DS trying out an

Elliptical Scooter

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And in another example of something being pushed (this time, the air through pipes)...here's bagpipe skirling, from the Scottish Games at Forest Park, on the same evening:

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KTB was quite scared of the bagpipers and said twice or thrice that they might kill us....!

Thanks a million to anushsh for sending me this wonderful jugalbandi concert...

bAnsuri (large bamboo flute )

and

jaltarang

(I don't know the equivalent in English...click on the link to know more about this very difficult musical instrument which is like a xylophone but played with bowls of water)

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Listen to as much as you want or leave it on ( Read more... )

I was listening to his beautiful, sad song from "Dil Ek Mandir":

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Is it the harmonium which is used in the song, or is it the accordion? And can someone tell me why the harmonium was banned on All India Radio for a long time?

I decided to snap a couple of other things at the wedding we attended recently, on Aug 27th....will be posting them ( Read more... )

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Invited sunson and Jaishankar over, one with his mandolin, the other with his mridangam, and tried to have a "session" of music together. It was a tentative first attempt. Certainly the mandolin sounded so sweet; Sunson can whistle beautifully, too! But we are all rusty, and it is going to take some determination, given the fact that Sunson and I ( Read more... )