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a goddess plays it in temples while you struggle to tune a guitar
means A veena is a plucked stringed instrument from South India, central to Carnatic classical music, with a long fretted neck, gourd resonators, and a deep resonant tone.
from The word comes from Sanskrit vīṇā, a term so ancient it appears in the Vedas, where it named stringed instruments long before the modern fretted form took shape. It is bound up with Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of music and learning, traditionally depicted cradling a veena — which is why the instrument carries an air of the sacred. The Sanskrit name passed essentially unchanged into Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and other Indian languages, the sound surviving across millennia.
- divine player
- Saraswati, goddess of knowledge, holds one
- ancient roots
- references stretch back over two thousand years
- resonant gourds
- hollow chambers amplify sound without electricity
- family tree
- sitar and other instruments descend from it
- four mains
- seven strings, four melody and three drone
padma subrahmanyam — pioneering veena artist who revived the 7-string sarod-veena in 20th century india