Any flutist performs with bigger sized flutes

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rajaglan
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Post by rajaglan »

Today I was watching VKRaman in Jaya TV interview and he was analysing playing with short&thin , medium and bigger size flutes.
It was interesting to hear the bigger flute performance . Actually Hindustani vidwans mostly perform in this. But I am not a great fan
of HM treatment. I have seen Shashank using multiple flutes in concerts. Does anyone know carnatic flute kutcheries performed with
mostly bigger flute (lower octave).

coolkarni
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ajit
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Are you asking if anyone has performed a whole concert with a base flute? If so, I dont know of any. Dr. N. Ramani was the earliest to introduce the use of Base flutes into carnatic concerts. He
has played on the 5/5.5 sruthi base flutes along with Sri T.R. Mahalingam in quite a few concerts. These concerts dont have violin as an accompaniment since the base flute provides the
lower octave accompaniment that a violin would normally provide.

ajit

rajaglan
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Post by rajaglan »

Ajit,

Yes - to answer your question. Thanks for the info about Mali and Ramani.

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