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Rohan Krishnamurthy, a senior at Kalamazoo College explains the different sounds produced on the mridangam, a classical Indian drum. For more info, please visit http://www.mlive.com /kzgazette
Video by Mark Bugnaski /copyright Kalamazoo Gazette/ Mlive
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sanjay vanen had the good fortune of playing for guruvayur sri dorai.Sri Dorai requested for tisra and misra nadai from sanjay at a papanasam sivan festival's competition in singapore, which sanjay won
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Palghat T. S. Mani Iyer plays a percussion solo (tani avartanam) on the mridangam, a South Indian double-headed barrel-shaped drum.
An audio clip of Mani Iyer playing the mridangam is among the Sounds of the Earth on the gold records aboard the Voyager spacecrafts:
http://www.jpl.na sa.gov/multimedia/vo yager_record
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Mridangam played by the late Palghat Mani Iyer.
Tabla played by Ustad Zakir Hussain.
Original video probably does not exist for this track.
Anyway it is top notch stuff.
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Here is a video of arguably greatest Mridangist on earth today. He is not well known to the general public but hopefully that will change soon.
Video is from www.palghatraghu.com
Visit that website for more information.
This video is being shown for educational purposes only and not for profit.
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3rd November 2007
Gurdain Rayatt and Amuthan Chandrakumar perform Mridangam and Tabla Duet for 20 minutes.
Mistakes in places but not bad after only playing together for one day!
Video taken at my aunt's diwali dinner and dance
