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Regards

Kasturi Mishra

Artistic Director

Gharana Arts

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Following the success of the first annual, 3-day Canadian Gharana Festival,

Gharana Arts is launching its first Music Concert Series in Ottawa entitled Sangeet!!

 

Sangeet Fall Showcase:   

Serene Strings of the Santoor

 

Date:                          October 6, 2012

Time:                         8:00pm

Location:                  Arts Court, 2 Daly Street

(Behind the Convention Centre)

 

Tickets :                    $15  In Advance

 

To Buy:                    613-824-5712, email: Gharana.Arts@gmail.com

 

Artists:                      Padma Shri, Pt. Satish Vyas

(Exponent of the 100-stringed instrument the “Santoor”)

 

&

Ravi S. K. Singh 

(Tabla accompaniment)

 

YouTube:                 Video 1:           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bImgfNPYvCA

Video 2:           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSnWGmibl_U

 

 The SANTOOR - Emerging from the valley of Kashmir, the Santoor consists of approximately a 100 strings of varying lengths. The strings are stretched over a wooden box and resemble a horizontal harp. Similar Instruments are found all over the world like 'Santoor' in Iran, 'Yang Chin' in China, 'Cimbalom' in Hungary and Rumania, 'Santoori' in Greece, 'Hack Bret' in Germany, 'Hammered Dulcimer' in certain European Countries and America.

 

The most notable feature of its instrumentation is the manner of tone production, because, unlike other string instruments, the Santoor is played with a pair of soft wooden tongs. Their gentle strokes on the strings afford a plenitude of delicate but lively tonal effects reminiscent of the piano or the harp. 

 

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