Ranjan veena

Ranjan Veena by Pandit Niranjan Haldar

Ranjan Veena is a plucked string musical instrument invented and patented by Pandit Niranjan Haldar who is a retired senior Grade-A artist from All India Radio (Indore, India). He has more than 40 years of experience in Indian and Western Classical music.^[1] He has presented at various concerts and several events such as Vichitra Veena for Akashvani, Doordarshan and Sangeet Natak Academy. He drew inspiration from Vichitra Veena and after a decade of work he created a smaller musical instrument with unique tonal quality that is a combination of the melodies of the veena, sitar, guitar.^[2] The instrument is played with picks on fore-finger, middle-finger and thumb.^[3] On the Ranjan Veena, an experienced musician can play all the Indian Classical Instrumental techniques: Meed (Slide) Gamak, Krintan, Gitkari and the fast Taans.

Structure

type--finger picking instruments
Played Using - 2 Finger Picks, 1 Thumb Pick & Stone/ Glass slide
Size (L*B*H) -(1100mm X 330mm X 150mm)
Weight - 3.6 kg (7.93 lbs)
Main Strings - 5; Secondary/ Chikari Strings - 4; Sympathetic Strings - 12; Octave Range - 4
Tuning Knobs - 21 (Indian design with guitar-like mechanism)
Fret - with 19 reference frets.

References

↑ "Indian classical music instruments | Ranjan Veena". www.ranjanveena.com. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
↑ "Omenad - Online Music Education". www.omenad.net. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
↑ "Omenad - Online Music Education". www.omenad.net. Retrieved 2016-01-30.

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