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Bansuri/ Vanjali
Punjabis call the thin horizontally-held
flute bansuri and the wider, verticary-held flute vanjali.
Vansh means "cane"; a bansuri is a simple bamboo tube with an
aperture to blow into and six, eight or nine holes for
producing the notes. The first hole, three fingers from the
mouthpiece, is called the mukharandhre; away from this is
another hole, the nadrandre, and beyond it are the remaining
holes distanced about half a finger from each other. The inner
circumference is about the thickness of the index finger and
the length about 18 finger- length Notes are produced by
increasing or decreasing wind pressure . Ordinary pressure
creates the Madhya saptak middle range while forceful pressure
creates mandar saptak based notes. The bansuri may be
embellished with coloured thread and tassel sometimes the pipe
is bound with metal rings.
Source:
santabanta.com
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