Raag Jog on Giant Surbahar - KG Westman
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ย. 2024
- First attempt at playing giant Surbahar... Never seen or heard about any Surbahar this big, length is 185 cm! Thanks to Niels Overgaard Petersen for passing this instrument on to me.
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What happens inbetween notes is music! Silence, approach, glide ..kala pramana …nada is so good esp in lower registries ..
I am just mesmerized. I lost count of the time listening to you Westman san. You are amazing.
Thank you so much! You are very kind.
Brilliant! Thoroughly enjoyed it! The depth of the sound tugs you in.
Skillful, soulful performance of a sublime piece of music on an amazing instrument. Thank you SO much for sharing this.
Thank you!
What an incredible-and massive-surbahar! Incredible tone too. Please share more ragas on that instrument! ❤❤❤ 🙏 🙏 🙏
More is coming!
Sounds very much like dagarvani Rudraveena. Oh the beauty of naad and nabhishruti!
Oh my god, those meends are so awesome! and those low - and otherwise unobtainable -low pitches touch so deep. When you occasionally drop to the bottom I’m thinking: whooaaaaa! This gigantic instrument seems by some miracle to have excellent intonation. (But then maybe you have to turn the screws one entire time around to move the pitch up and down one cent, though? Just kidding!) The tone is just out-of-this world gorgeous and I love how serene your playing is. I hope you will record more.
Thank you so much for your very kind words! New recordings are out on Spotify/Amazon/AppleMusic, but you are for sure inspiring me to post more videos!
Absolutely beautiful and mesmorizing!
Thank you so much!
A magnificent instrument.
Giant instrument, mini inspiration !
Imrat & Irshad Khan are the happy fews mastering the monster.
@@morellonrene1943 😁
What a delightful treat! Thanks.
I'm no sitar expert by any means, but i really enjoyed this 🍃🐜🎼
frumos interpretat frumoasă raga 💖🥰👐
can you please tell me some mesurements from this instrument!!?/
the string lenght....the fret.....neck withs......the total lenghts....thinghs like that.
i hope you can tell me....this instrument is just amazing....
anf of course the playing !!!
ITS MAGICAL
It is impossible to find one of these huge surbahars. In the mid sixties Rikhi Ram developed what is hot the standard size and the manufacturing of the large ones seems to hav ceased.. I've been looking for a couple of years. Any of this size would have been made in the 50s or earlier. I know that Pt Mukherjee has one but I haven't found a video of him playing itt.
Go to india my friend plus the trip in it self is already reason to ho
This one was custom made by Radha Krishna Sharma in 1980. I read there was a large one in the family of Ustad Imrat Khan, but it was still smaller than this. This size I wouldn´t recommend to any person who is not very tall.
th-cam.com/video/QX6okSI91C0/w-d-xo.html Budhaditya Mukherjee playing Surbahar. I was fortunate to attend this concert in person. In Mumbai. I think 2017.
@@shardamusicstudio2596 incredible tone and resonance even over a horrible mobile phone speaker. Magic!
@@samdbz8680 are you saying you know how to track down this instrument? ;) Maybe one day I'll be lucky enough to visit your amazing ancient world heritage ruins ✌️
Wonderful and inspiring!
@@JeffStarr thank you sir 🙏🎶
Wow! I play possess surbahar but this is just amazing!!
amazing!!!!!!
Raag Jog is The Blues ! the netherworld between the western major and minor can be thought of with both Ghandar notes of this beautiful evening raag.........
is it ? I think Ma is not in the blues , i mean pentatonic scale plus minor 3rd makes blues right?
You have succeeded in mastering the been ang of surbahar. I would humbly urge you to listen to the renditions of Pt. Santosh Banerjee for deeper insights. Thank you for the wonderful Jog.
Thank you so much for your kind words, but I dont think I have mastered anything after just few years of Surbahar.... I do already listen to Pt Santosh Bannerjee as he is also my Dada Guru and I enjoy his touch in alaap 🙏🎶
Good job
Deep meditative Raag Jog. Rare to find a westerner playing dhrupad with such maturity. Surbahar is meant for dhrupad and you handled it excellently. Who is your guru?
Thank you for your comment. I have been learning from Pt Rabindra Goswamiji since 2006, mostly sitar, but starting to look into Dhrupad a bit now.
Wah ji wah!
So deep and intensely captivating
Thank you so much!
Beautiful
Excellent!
@@Texasslim57 🙏🎶🎶🎶
Very nice
Beautiful 🌹
Beautiful tonal quality, sustained long meend notes, and more than well-played Jog. Who is the artist performing here? He looks Western European. Unusually long stem and large size of this instrument. Worth producing copies of it. But where did the large gourd come from, or is this a wooden box acting in place of a natural gourd?
KG Westman
Thank you for your kind words! Yes, even in this size surbahar there is a natural gourd.
Don't forget, rudra veena gourds are immense,
KG, your music is an inspiration! The size of a surbahar is limited to only two factors: the size of available gourds, and the size of available wood for the tabli. So, I am curious, how wide IS the tabli? and, what is the length of the scale? Many thanks!
Thank you so much! Tabli is 64cm wide but scale I have to check...
@@shardamusicstudio2596 Amazing. And the gourd is apparently wider. One imagines good-quality wood of this width is nearly impossible to find. It must take great hand and finger strength to play this instrument!
Deep sounds
Very good :D
Loved it, thank you,.
Habba sound engide andre, ondh ondh string pluck'u ello nam shushumna nadi ne pluck madi nam body'le reverberate adhang idhe
That's a Big Sitar. Surbahar is Big Sitar.
Yes, in some aspect it is like a big sitar.
Crazy, ... I mean you're like 1,90 tall and look like a dwarf compared to this 😆✌️
😂 yes its crazy!
Are you playing in C sharp ?
Sitar is C# or D usually, Surbahar G# or A, but this large one was tuned to F# here
@@shardamusicstudio2596 amazing thank you for the correction.
Sounds horrible
@@khalidshah5048 thank you for your feedback. What can I do to improve?
It doesn't! i am impressed by your purity and understanding of dhrupad, your playing is great!
Don't worry man the guy commenting saying its horrible is musically illiterate😅@@shardamusicstudio2596
You are a great inspiration to me! It's my dream to play the Surbahar!
@@louislamonte334 im so happy to hear that 🙏
@@shardamusicstudio2596Wonderful to hear from you, my friend!!