Not the best images via this CL post, but I thought it would be worth capturing for the description as well."Raagini Digital today is the preferred electronic tanpura of hindustani & carnatic musicians young & old, artists & students alike. Raagini Digital Tanpura delivers a real unmatched tanpura sound which has become a bench mark in the music world. It has a stable digitally tuned pitch covering more than an octave. It comes with a dual power mode, battery mode & an inbuilt battery charger. Capable of playing in both hindustani & carnatic style, this electronic tanpura is light weight & compact. Its an acknowledged fact the Raagini Digital helps improve the mood & scope of practice & performance of music vastly." via Roberto. Also see these Tabla posts.
Why is this labeled "Tabla" ? A tamboura is not a percussive instrument. It is a stringed instrument used for drones in the indian music.
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BTW: I got a different version called "Digital Raagini". With a little keyboard with LEDs painted on the top to select the base pitch. You can adjust the gender from "male" to "female" (for the two different real tamboura instruments called male and female). There is also a detunning knob.
I will do a picture once I pick up my instrument at a friend of mine who lent it from me.
Because I'm not going to create a separate label for every single type of Indian instrument. The labels are for manufacturers and in the rare case categories. Tabla was the first label for this category of instruments so I stuck with it. Same for Reactable, monome, russian synths, etc. The label list is also quite long enough. If someone wants to find specific information on Tamboura's all they need to do is search for it.
ReplyDeleteThe idea is if someone is interested in Tablas and checks out the label, they might also be interested in this post. But... I'm not going to painstakingly think of all such lexicons, so whatever comes to mind at the time of the post is what goes up.
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