Divine Veena Science

Divine Veena was considered as the first of the best in the musical instruments, since time immemorial. This is our National emblem for fine arts! Lack of encouragements and supports by musicians and music-lovers has caused a sharp decline in its past glory. This is a humble attempt to revive it.

Brief contents: - Ancient history and evolution. - Saraswathi veena and human body. - Science of vibrations, acoustics, listening, voice, voice-differences. - Veena rendering-methods and Baanis. - Techniques: Mela, shruthi, varities of plucking, thaanams, gamakas. - Veena - naada-yoga-salvation. - Varities of veenas, and string- instruments. Famous Vainikas. - Raaga identification by soft ware technology. - Present status of Divine veena in India and outside