Talk:Tanjore veena

Picture

Shouldn't there be a more 'documentary' image of the Veena instead of the 'Ravi Varma' painting? HairyPotter 04:22, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Gottuvadyam vs ChitraVeena

There is a fine difference between Gottuvadyam and ChitraVeena, in that the Chitraveena has 12 additional 'sympathetic' strings. HairyPotter 04:22, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Title of the article

The instrument is called "vina" or "veena" in English, not vīṇā. I'd prefer a move to vina, which is at the moment a rather useless disambiguation page, or possibly veena. Any views? -- Ranveig 10:22, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I, for one, agree with a page move. English keyboards don't have "ī", "ṇ" or "ā" so it doesn't seem likely that very many users will arrive directly at "Vīṇā". -- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:26, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd oppose the move. Our readers are here to learn, and that includes learning the original name. ;) —Nightstallion (?) ^{Seen this already?} 08:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

That's a good point, but couldn't it be explained in the article? -- Gyrofrog (talk) 22:52, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Ahem; in what way is "Vīṇā" the "original name"? It's a transliteration, remember? The change to this Roman rendition is recent; this reminds me of the annoying change from Peking to Beijing, for example, depending on the current political climate more than anything. I'd like to see this moved to "vina"; the current spelling is of interest to language snobs only. It could be explained in the article, but why go out of our way to give it such a tortured title? ==ILike2BeAnonymous 07:04, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Besides, I just noticed the article uses the name "veena" throughout, making the title annoyingly anomalous. ==ILike2BeAnonymous 07:05, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

I just tried moving the page to Veena, but obviously I can't, since there's a redirect by that name to this article. Can someone who knows how all this stuff works do this? There is no good reason to keep the article with its current ridiculous orthography (Vīṇā); no English user is ever going to search for this name, and it's not even used once within the article itself.

The page Vina should be left as-is, since it's a disambiguation page that contains a link to Veena.

Thanks! ==ILike2BeAnonymous 00:39, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

It would appear that a move is the best idea. Doing --NigelJ ^talk|WMNZ 00:45, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Description

I feel the article could use a more thorough description of the instrument. To a reader such as myself who is unfamiliar with the subject, it is hard to distinguish this instrument from, for example, the sitar. I thought this instrument was played using a glass sphere in a similar way that a guitarist uses a slide. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:26, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

BTW: Is this the same instrument played by Gopal Krishan? -- Gyrofrog (talk) 22:51, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Turns out I was thinking of the vichitra veena. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:36, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

(RamV) The Veenai is a very ancient instrument having references in scriptures and associated with Hindu Gods (oldest religion). Hence it is naive to assume that the fret distribution of Veenai is adapted from a modern instrument like guitar after 17th century Portuguese. Hence I am removing the assumption.

History Section?

I think that the intro is much too long, so I propose a History/Design Section. I am not sure how much information to keep in the intro, so I hope someone else can do it. FruitMart07 16:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Narada, The Inventor of the Vina

Narada is one of the seven great seers. He is considered one of the exponents of the Tantric doctrine and the author of the Naradiya Dharma Shastra, a great work on law and behaviour. The authorship of several hymns of the Rig Veda are ascribed to him. Several works on musical theory are also attributed to him. He invented the Veena. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.216.215.140 (talk • contribs) 01:13, 24 May 2007