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Rudra Vina

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Rudra Vina, rudra veena, Been, Bin
Pt Hindraj Divekar with Rudra Vina (Rudra Veena)

Rudra vina also known as the bin (been), ap­pears to be one of the oldest styles of vina.  Such evidence is readily seen in elements of its construction, and from its depiction on the walls of ancient temples.  This instrument is ba­si­cally a bamboo stick with two gourds at­ta­ched.  It has frets which are set into wax.

This instrument was very rare, but today there is a re­newed interest.  This is part of a larger renaissance in trad­itional classical In­dian in­stru­ments.

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Other Sites of Interest

Bharatiya Sangeet Vadya (Review)

Catalogue of Indian Musical Instruments

Fractal dimension analysis of audio signals for Indian musical instrument recognition

Natural synthesis of North Indian musical instruments

Recognition of Indian Musical Instruments with Multi-Classifier Fusion

The Tagore collection of Indian musical instruments

Improvement of Audio Feature Extraction Techniques in Traditional Indian Musical Instrument

East Indians musical instruments

Yantra kosha; or, A Treasury of the Musical Instruments of Ancient and of Modern India, and of Various Other Countries