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Alapini Vina

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made of a 2 inch thick rod of red sandal wood or khadira wood, or may have been a bamboo tube. The earliest of these instruments were obvious stick zithers, the stick too narrow to make an effective resonating tube. Later instruments were as thick, the musician's hand barely able to stretch around the tube. Often in sculpture, the stick has curves.
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tend to be stick zithers, held shoulder to hip with a gourd resonator that is pressed into the musician's stomach, chest or shoulder, the musician's upper hand normally held over that gourd with fingers wide to choose notes, the lower hand plucking the string. The body of the instrument may have been
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spread from India to Southeast Asia, modern scholars have been trying to decide if the tube zithers might have originated in Southeast Asia and spread to India. Whatever the origins, Indian influence on musical culture in Southeast Asia is recorded in the archaeological remains of past civilizations.
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are generally tube zithers with wide tubes and a gourd attached to the top, the gourd held over the musician's shoulder and the other end past their hip, with a single string and no frets. Musician's are shown sliding the straightened fingers of their upper hand on the string, or holding a stick to
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Koch warns about assuming too much when looking at modern instruments. He said there is no "direct transfer of playing technique, tone supply or repertoire" so that the instruments in medieval India may have been played differently and to different kinds of music compared to modern instruments.
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are very similar, it is possible that they have different origins. Early paintings of stick zithers in India date back at least to the 5th century C.E. The earliest currently known stick zither is in the Caves of Ajanta at the end of the 5th century. After a period of assuming that tube zithers
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Musicologist Lars-Christian Koch pointed out that modern instruments exist in Orissa or Radhjasthan, which can help us understand how the instruments might have sounded. Similarly, ethnomusicologist Patrick Kersale has documented modern instruments, including in Cambodia the
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In medieval artwork, a second lower gourd has been seen on both stick zithers and tube zithers. Artwork for the eka-tantri vina commonly shows a second carved resonator or gourd resonator near the instrument's lower end.
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labeled "tingadee." The spike is a bridge, directing string energy to resonator. In later kinnari vinas a third gourd was added in the center, which was pressed into the chest, similar to the alapini vina.
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The alapini vina is represented in sculpture with two thickness of tube or stick. Earliest images show a much thinner stick. By the 10th—12th century C.E., the larger tube zither form was common as well.
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in India, with a single string and a gourd resonator. Later forms added more strings. The instruments became prominent in Indian music after 500 C.E. as instruments of court music. Alongside the
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the gourd (bottom intact) used for the resonance chamber rested over the musician's shoulder. These latter two might have a second or third gourd added further down, creating the modern
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Saraswati holding an Eka-tantri vina, ca. 1000 C.E. This image clearly shows the bridge (bottom of instrument) which would sustain the string's note and create a buzzing quality.
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was cut to form a cup or bowl, the opening of which could be placed against the musician's body while playing, creating a "closed resonance chamber". On the
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India, ca. 12th century C.E. Hoysaleswara Temple. Saraswati playing a stick zither. The gourd at the top of the broken-off instrument is on her left breast.
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and lute-style veenas. The instruments were used in Southeast Asia, both mainland and island nations, and were recorded in sculpture and relief sculpture.
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or bamboo rod 2 inches in circumference. The cup (tumba) was made from coconut, and its string was reportedly made of silk, producing a delicate sound.
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Based on definitions from Indian literature, the unifying criterion is that both have a single string and a gourd resonator. The literature includes the
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that has a figure carved into the vina's tube, just below the upper gourd. The carving resembles a crocodile, in a style similar to that on the Malayan
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has also been portrayed playing the vina and dancing; the instrument is not iconically associated with him, as his instrument is the flute.
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Makara or yali (or possibly a bird), from Saraswati playing alapini vina, from Hindu stone sculpture in National Museum, New Delhi
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we're fretted and show traits of both instruments, with gourds that are pressed into the chest and also rise above the shoulder.
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a stick zither, in which the stick might be a bamboo or wooden tube. They focused on how the vinas were played. The gourd on the
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style of pressing to the players chest can be seen in to Southeast Asia. Examples can be seen in ruins from Malayan culture at
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Kumba (1400 A.D.) attributes the invention of the fourteen fretted kinnari to Matanga (800 A.D.) the author of Brhad-desi. ...]
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When playing the musician could press the cut off side of the gourd into their chest; in modern versions such as the Cambodian
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Different symbolism appears on the instruments over time. In Hinduism, the instruments have been associated with the gods
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on the top. Fretted tube-zither vinas are mentioned in literature by 800 C.E., coexisting with the non-fretted vinas. The
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Alastair Dick; Gordon Geekie; Richard Widdess (1984). "Vina, section 4 Medieval stick zithers". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.).
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descends from the kinnari veena. The square at the bottom of the instrument is a stylized version of the bridge from the
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At least one example of the chest-pressed Southeast Asian zithers has bee-n found in artwork with a second gourd, in
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Instruments in paintings and sculpture are not generally labeled, and researchers have had to apply the names
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The instruments are fretless, the earliest depictions showing a single string. The later instruments labeled
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Somanathapur, India. Chennakesava Temple, ca. 12th-13th century. Krishna dancing with a stick-zither vina.
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In the 13th century, the Sangita Ratnakara placed vinas into three categories: fretless (into which the
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The instrument has been portrayed in Buddhist temple art in the hands of humans, as well as celestial
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have an extra gourd or the phin namtoa multiple strings. This may be seen as "evidence" that the
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That is more rare in the alapini vina style stick zithers. Patrick Kersale identified two at the
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Some kinnari vinas in museums seem to have bird-related carvings and feathers on the ends. Some
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culture). Three musicians in right are playing (from center) a 5-stringed lute, cymbals, a
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as being a larger instrument, with a "bigger tube" and bigger gourd, compared to the
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India, 7th-8th century C.E. Figure holding an Alapini vina at Kailasanathar Temple
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Ca. 7th century C.E. Kinnaras playing alapini vina and chime cymbals, from
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have very styled ends that resemble the heads of monsters, similar to the
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India, ca. 7th-8th century C.E. A kinnara (?) playing Alapini vina at
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for the additional gourd, a path that led to the rudra vina in India.
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Sonderheft: Musikarchäologie Klänge der Vergangenheit: Theiss (2015)
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Researchers Piyal Bhattacharya and Shreetama Chowdhury described the
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9th century C.E. Stick zither with resonator in Borobudur, side view
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The instruments were recorded in sculpture and relief sculpture in
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Makara or yali on alapini vina, 12th century, Pala Empire artwork
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in the 7th century C.E., Borobudur in the 9th century C.E., the
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were attributed to Matanga (800 A.D.) the author of Brhad-desi.
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Piyal Bhattacharya; Shreetama Chowdhury (January–March 2021).
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Siva Ellora Caves, cave 16, playing alapini vina, colored in
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with cymbals and stick-zither veena; they are standing on
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slide on the string, and plucking with their lower hand.
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Indonesia (Java), ca. 900-925 C.E. Kinnara playing vina
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in Hindi. One early vina was called the makara vina.
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Index

Alapini veena
India, Ellora Caves, cave 21, 7th-8th century C.E. Shiva with an ālāpiṇī vīṇā.
Ellora Caves
Saraswati with an ālāpiṇī vīṇā
Pala period
Saraswati
tube zither
stick-zither
veena
eka-tantri vina
kinnari vina
harp-style veenas
tube zithers
kse diev
phin namtao
Saraswati holding an Eka-tantri vina, ca. 1000 C.E.
Sarasvati with fretted Eka-tantri vina
kinnari vina
rudra veena
Kinnari veena or tingadee
Madras
Sangita Ratnakara
Śārṅgadeva
kinnari vina
Bayon
Angkor
Kailasanathar Temple
Kanchipuram
kse diev
Oy

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