Ranjan Veena by Pandit Niranjan Haldar

Ranjan Veena is a plucked string musical instrument invented and patented by Pandit Niranjan Haldar, a retired senior Grade-A artist from All India Radio (Indore, India).

Invention

Haldar has more than 40 years of experience in Indian and Western Classical music[1] and has performed at various concerts and events such as Vichitra Veena for Akashvani, Doordarshan and Sangeet Natak Academy. He drew inspiration from Vichitra Veena.

After a decade of work he created a smaller musical instrument with a unique tonal quality that is a combination of the veena, sitar and guitar.[2] The instrument is played with picks on fore-finger, middle-finger and thumb.[3] On the Ranjan Veena, an experienced musician can play all the Indian Classical Instrumental techniques: Meed (Slide) Gamak, Krintan, Gitkari and the fast Taans.

Structure

  • Type: finger picking instruments
  • Picks: 2 Finger Picks, 1 Thumb Pick & Stone/ Glass slide
  • Size (L*B*H): (1100mm X 330mm X 150mm)
  • Weight: 3.6 kg (7.93 lbs)
  • Main Strings: 5; Secondary/ Chikari Strings - 4; Sympathetic Strings - 12; Octave Range - 4
  • Tuning Knobs: 21 (Indian design with guitar-like mechanism)
  • Fret: with 19 reference frets.

References

  1. ↑ "Indian classical music instruments | Ranjan Veena". www.ranjanveena.com. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
  2. ↑ "Omenad - Online Music Education". www.omenad.net. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
  3. ↑ "Omenad - Online Music Education". www.omenad.net. Retrieved 2016-01-30.


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