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RUDRA VEENA WEBSITES
Rudra Vina
An excellent site with detailed information on the instrument, the history, the musicians, the music and more.
rudravina.com is now only on web.archive.org (Wayback Machine).

Patrick Moutal's Site - Hindustani Rag Sangeet Online - Rudra Veena

Patrick Moutal's Site is an incredible resource.  The Rudra Veena page has some rare audios

Chandrakantha Rudra Vina

Information and videos

RUDRA VEENA MAKERS
Saraswati Tantuvadya Kendra
Miraj - Altab Mehboob Sitarmaker
"the art of making quality beens flows generation by generation"

Naeem Sitarmaker
Miraj

B.C.Mistry & Sons
Musical Instruments and Books Dealer.
Specialist of Rare Indian Musical Instrument Making and Repairing.
B.C.Mistry & Sons facebook


Sanat Veena Maker
Uluberia - Rudra Veena is our speciality

Dipen Das
Manufacturer And Exporter of All Kinds of musical instruments, Carbon Fibre case and Fibreglass case

RUDRA VEENA MAKERS (PAST)
Mehabub Sitarmaker
The fifth generation owner of Saraswati Tantuvadya Kendra

Murari Adhikari
from the Calcutta shop, Kanai Lal & Brother

Nitai Chandra Nath
from Varanasi

INSTRUMENT DEALERS
India Instruments
Excellent source for Indian Instruments.  Top quality customer service

Tarang Indian Instruments
Another good source for Indian Instruments.  

RUDRA VEENA REPAIR / RESTORE
Scott Hackleman
Point Roberts, WA U.S.A.
Taught by
Murari Adhikari of KanaiLal & Brother
Click HERE to view photos of Rudra Veenas owned by Thomas Marcotty and restored by Scott Hackleman
Click HERE to view photos of a Dagar Rudra Veena restored by Scott Hackleman

Tony Karasek
Actively involved in all aspects of India's music for over 30 years doing extensive instrument repairs, adjustments to concert artist's specifications, appraisals, teaching and performing.

STRINGS
Musician's Mall
Phosphor Bronze Wire and Roeslau Music Wire.  Formerly The Ali Akbar College Store

Rain City Music
Phosphor Bronze Wire and Roeslau Music Wire coils.

Pyramid Strings
"Your instrument strings as desired!"

Monoj Kr. Sardar & Bros.
An excellent source for Karuna brand strings and Indian Musical Instruments.
Karaj:  Karuna Tanpura Double Winding # 18
Pa:  Karuna Tanpura Double Winding # 20

DHRUPAD
The Dhrupad Music Institure of America
a Non-Profit organization founded to promote, propagate, encourage, and support the performance and teaching of the oldest form of Indian classical music, known as Dhrupad, both vocal and instrumental (on such instruments as the pakhawaj, rudra vina, and surbahar in particular, as well as other instruments), in order to increase public awareness and knowledge of Dhrupad music in the United States.

Dhrupad of the Dagar Tradition

Dhrupad classical North Indian temple and court music - a site maintained by veena player, Glynn Snellgrove

'Dhrupad of the Dagars: Conceptual Foundations and Contemporary Questions' by Ashish Sankrityayan

Deals with the history of the tradition of the descendants of Behram Khan, renowned today as the Dagars, and the conceptual foundations of their art, in the overall context of Indian music.
Hardbound with 836 pages and over 600 rare photographs, printed on art paper.   Highly recommended.


Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music
By Ritwik Sanyal and Richard Widdess.  

Nancy Lesh Kulkarni, dhrupad cello
Nancy Lesh Kulkarni is a classically-trained cellist who has devoted herself to the study and performance of dhrupad music of India on the cello for the last 30 years.

RAGAS
Music In Motion
"The aim of this project is to freely put at the disposal of students, teachers and researchers of music a new tool, that enables us to take a zoomed-in look-and-listen of North Indian music (Hindustani sangit)."

FILMS
Ustad Asad Ali Khan – A Portrait – A Film by Renuka George

Rajesh Bhatia
Rajesh Bhatia is a film Director/Producer. His works include films of Jyoti Hegde and Pt. Suvir Misra. Those films document the music and lives of the musicians, in a beautiful and personal way.

Dhrupad
From the Government of India, Ministry of Information, Films Division. Featuring Zia Mohiuddin Dagar.

SOFTWARE
AP Tuner 
A great free software tuner!  This one works better than most hardware tuners that you buy at a music store.   It's shareware, but it's not disabled in any way.  Excellent for tuning sitars, tablas and as a pitch pipe for voice.

BestPractice - A great little practice tool that lets you slow down, loop, and change the pitch of any wave file or CD recording.  It also removes vocals from recordings so that you can hear the instrumental parts better.

Visual Analyser - A free, software Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyzer with amplitude and phase display, Wave-form generator, Frequency meter, Volt meter, and more.

Audacity
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.  It does multi track recording, and it's great for putting parts together because you can edit the sounds visually.  You can also use it to slow down and change the pitch of recordings, so that they're easier to learn.  It's one of the best learning tools available, and it's powerful enough to create commercial recordings - even full length albums.  It's a very small download, and it runs on virtually any computer platform.

OTHER
Oriental Traditional Music from LPs & Cassettes
Axel Elbin's Blog

Deep Music
Deep Space, Deep Sound, Deep Thought, Deep Music

Liberty Agarbathi
A to Z Incense sticks - the official incense of rudraveena.org

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