Description :This article covers two basic goal first a brief description of the physics of wind driven musical instruments and second is a report on a very recent study of one feature of the shehnai and its Western counterpart the oboe which illustrates nicely the contrast in the two societies criteria for acceptable musicaI instruments. Briefly the result is that the shehnai has a pitch flexibility which is twice to thrice that of the oboe its Western physical counterpart.
Source :Sangeet Natak Akademi
Type :Article
Received From :Sangeet Natak Akademi
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James Hadden, W.
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2017-06-19T06:17:01Z
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2017-06-19T06:17:01Z
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1970
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This article covers two basic goal first a brief description of the physics of wind driven musical instruments and second is a report on a very recent study of one feature of the shehnai and its Western counterpart the oboe which illustrates nicely the contrast in the two societies criteria for acceptable musicaI instruments. Briefly the result is that the shehnai has a pitch flexibility which is twice to thrice that of the oboe its Western physical counterpart.
Government of India
