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Gottuvadhyam, the Glossary

The gotuvadyam is a 20 or 21-string fretless lute-style veena in Carnatic music from around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, named by Sakha Rama Rao from Tiruvidaimarudur, who was responsible for bringing it back to the concert scene.^[1]

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Carnatic music instruments
String instruments with sympathetic strings

African buffalo

The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large sub-Saharan African bovine.

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Budaloor Krishnamurthy Shastri

Budaloor Krishnamurti Shastri (1894–1978) was an Indian gottuvadhyam player.

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Carnatic music

Carnatic music, known as or in the South Indian languages, is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

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Chitravina Narasimhan

Chitravina Narasimhan (born 1941) is a gottuvadhyam player from India.

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Drone (sound)

In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece. Gottuvadhyam and drone (sound) are Carnatic music instruments.

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Ebony

Ebony is a dense black/brown hardwood, coming from several species in the genus Diospyros, which also includes the persimmon tree.

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Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees.

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Jugalbandi

A jugalbandi or jugalbandhi is a performance in Indian classical music, especially in Hindustani classical music but also in Carnatic, that features a duet of two solo musicians.

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K. Savitri Ammal

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Kingdom of Mysore

The Kingdom of Mysore was a geopolitical realm in southern India founded in around 1399 in the vicinity of the modern-day city of Mysore and prevailed until 1950.

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Lap steel guitar

The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap.

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N. Ravikiran

Narasimhan Ravikiran (born 12 February 1967) is an Indian slide instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, and orator, who created the concept of melharmony.

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Narayan Iyengar

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Natya Shastra

The Nāṭya Shāstra (Nāṭyaśāstra) is a Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts.

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Polytetrafluoroethylene

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene, and has numerous applications because it is chemically inert.

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Rudra veena

The Rudra veena (रुद्र वीणा) (also spelled Rudraveena or Rudra vīnā)—also called Bīn in North India—is a large plucked string instrument used in Hindustani Music, especially dhrupad.

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Sagar veena

The Sagar veena (Urdu) is a plucked string instrument used in Punjab and developed in 1970 by prominent Pakistani lawyer Raza Kazim.

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Sakharam Rao

Sakharam Rao (or Sakha Rama Rao, died 1928) was an Indian musician credited with having re-introduced the south Indian chitravina or gottuvadyam to the concert scene.

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Saraswati veena

The Sarasvatī vīṇa (also spelled Saraswati veena) (సరస్వతి వీణ, ಸರಸ್ವತಿ ವೀಣೆ, சரஸ்வதி வீணை, Malayalam: സരസ്വതി വീണ) is an ancient Indian plucked veena. Gottuvadhyam and Saraswati veena are Carnatic music instruments.

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Sarod

The sarod is a stringed instrument, used in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent. Gottuvadhyam and sarod are string instruments with sympathetic strings.

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Seetha Doraiswamy

Seethamma Doraiswamy ("Seetha Amma Doraiswamy") or Seetha Doraiswamy (27 January 1926 – 14 March 2013), was a renowned Carnatic multi-instrumentalist.

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Sitar

The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Surbahar

Surbahar sometimes known as bass sitar, is a plucked string instrument used in the Hindustani classical music of the Indian subcontinent.

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Sursingar

The sursingar (IAST), sursringar or surshringar (Sringara: Pleasure in Sanskrit), is a musical instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent having many similarities with the sarod.

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Sympathetic string

Sympathetic strings or resonance strings are auxiliary strings found on many Indian musical instruments, as well as some Western Baroque instruments and a variety of folk instruments.

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Tanpura

The tanpura (also referred to as tambura, tanpuri, tamboura, or tanpoura) is a long-necked, plucked, four-stringed instrument originating in the Indian subcontinent, found in various forms in Indian music. Gottuvadhyam and tanpura are Carnatic music instruments.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottuvadhyam

Also known as Chitra veena, Chitra vina, Chitraveena, Chitravina, Gottuvadyam, Navachitravina.