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Indian Violin
The Violin is one of the most beautiful of musical instruments. It comes from the string family and has a pitch range of at least three octaves. More and more people are now playing the violin and today it is perhaps amongst the most widely played instruments. The violin has evolved from many different instruments, including the Rabob (North India), Rebec (Arabian), Lira Di Braccio (French) and the Renaissance Fiddle (Italy).
The Violin was introduced to India around 300 years ago when Baluswami Dikshitar learned it from the army bandmaster at Fort St. George (Madras), and then developed a new playing technique to suit Carnatic music. Today it is a very popular and important string instrument in Indian Classical Music, especially Carnatic, principally as an accompaniment to vocal, but also sometimes as a solo instrument.
Though identical to the Western violin, it differs in the tuning and the playing position. It is traditionally played while sitting down, the instrument pointing to the ground while resting on the left shoulder, and the scroll resting on the ankle. This frees the artist's left hand to play Indian Classical music more freely. To the ear of western violin players, Indian Music and more importantly, the Indian Violin, is one of exotic and mysterious sound.
The biggest difference
between Indian and western Classical music is that the former is based
very largely on improvisation, with emphasis on the creativity of the
performer rather than on the exact reproduction of the composer's work.
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