Any flutist performs with bigger sized flutes

rajaglan · Post by **rajaglan** » 27 May 2009, 18:21

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 · Post by **coolkarni** » 28 May 2009, 08:24

ajit · Post by **ajit** » 30 May 2009, 22:59

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 · Post by **rajaglan** » 01 Jun 2009, 16:08

Ajit,

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