Santoor Unwrapped | Interview with Pandit Shivkumar Sharma | Musical Wonders of India
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- #darbarfestival | “I was trained as a vocalist and a tabla player and I feel that has helped me a lot...I tried to balance melody with rhythm.” (Shivkumar Sharma)
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Shivkumar Sharma is one of very few Indian instrumentalists who has near-single-handedly put their instrument on the classical map. Born in the Himalayan state of Jammu to a Dogri family, his father Uma Dutt Sharma was an esteemed singer who inducted him into vocal music and tabla from a young age. But his path deviated at age 13, as his father recommended that he took up the santoor - a 100-stringed hammered dulcimer traditionally used in Sufi folk music.
They set about studying the instrument together, working out how it could be adapted to Hindustani classical settings. Conservative members of the music establishment viewed the endeavor as hopeless folly - the santoor’s rigid strings each have a fixed pitch and cannot be bent, seemingly ruling out the distinctive ornaments of Indian music. But they restrung, retuned, and reconfigured the instrument, changing the weight of the small mallets used to strike it and developing new techniques that allowed the young Shivkumar to glide and bounce his way through a melody, capturing the essence of Hindustani music’s gayaki ang [singing style].
From the critics came first silence, and eventually applause - although Shivkumar estimates that it took almost two decades from his controversial 1955 debut to win over "the die-hard connoisseurs…and purists." He attributes his santoor style to blending the melodic turns of vocal music with his two-handed percussive training on tabla (he maintained his tabla study for decades, becoming proficient enough to accompany Ravi Shankar at one stage).
His long career since has seen him rise to the forefront of Indian classical music. He played on 1967’s Call of the Valley, the first Hindustani album to find a global audience, and teamed up with bansuri master and close friend Hariprasad Chaurasia for several acclaimed film soundtracks. International collaborators have included electronic producers as well as a successful stint with Indo-jazz heavyweights Remember Shakti. Today he takes keen interest in therapeutic music, and teaches dedicated students for free at his ashram during breaks from touring with his santoor-playing son Rahul, who carries his lineage forward. Hear more of Shivkumar here:
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The Santoor Legend is Sadly No more RIP Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma
i am actually from a Persian background and i love india especially its music so somehow i feel kind of connected thanks for the post Hello From Sweden
Santoor maestro Pandit ShivKumar Sharma explaining the most ancient music tradition of India.Great to hear from the living legend himself.Thank you Pandit ji for explaining it.
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Thank you sir..🙏🙏 you r great
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Lining up santoor maestros from.each country where it s found and making a documentary would be a great production Project! The story of the instrument would develop as a travel of the instrument and the feelings given by the music would advance the film story with a powerful and great dynamics! Namaskar Pt.Sharma! Much health and a long life!!
Many Thanks for putting up the info touching on the history of the santoor. I think that the making of wire that has the SAME thickness for each wire for the length of the whole segment WAS the important factor that STARTED the making of santoors. Do we know of any other material other than wire that was used for santoor strings?? The instrument is in Kashmir, Persia, Greece. Romania, Hungary and Austria. You can see it also in USA not to be confused with the lap held dulcimer that s totally different. The technology of wire making and its history seems to be the starting point for making santoors. I am begging Pt.Shivkumar Sharma to post additional material to make this inquiry clearer. Danyebad Pandit!!
Salute to you sir.... Grow up Indian music of this style
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He has absolutely a wrong information once it comes to Santoor then watch Pt Bhajan sopori u will see he is absolutely brilliant musician rather a musicologist
Absolutely wrong