The Music of Wood – B.Kolappan’s Article for FrontLine Talks about the Making of Musical Instruments in Thanjavur
25 Wednesday Jan 2012
Thanjavur may have lost its musicians to the big cities, but it is still home to makers of musical instruments. In his article for FrontLine magazine, B.Kolappan talks to people who make musical instruments like the veena, nagaswaram and thavil. Interesting tidbits about the different types of wood used for various parts of the instruments and anecdotes make this a worthy read.
Photo by: M.Srinath
Photo Courtesy: FrontLine Magazine, published by The Hindu group of publications
1 comments
April 18, 2012 at 8:00 pm
The article on Nadaswaram and its makers in Tanjavur was very informative. This kind of information is hard to come by. Thank you very much for taking time to write this article.
I would like to know the contact information of these Nadaswaram makers and their cooperative agency. These may be dwindling breed.
Thanks
Vilas Vaidya