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		<title>Veena Venkataraman Mourned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sumathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sydhwaney deeply bemournes the sad demise of Veena Vidwan Venkataraman and his daughter in a car accident on 5 January 2010. Sydney siders were fortunate to listen and move with the great vidwan during his last visit at the Sydney Festival held in Sydney last year. His students Ramnath and Gopinath in Melbourne are devastated to hear the news of his sudden death. The Iyer Brothers from Melbourne posted this article on Sydhwaney last year which pays tribute to their guru: Venkitaraman &#8211; Master of the Veena By Iyer Bros from Melbourne, students of Venkitaraman The Veena (also referred to as Saraswati Veena) is one of the most ancient string instruments of India. It has a hollow stem made of resonant wood, about thirty-two inches long and four inches wide. It houses twenty-four brass frets embedded in bees-wax and is set on two chambers; the main sound chamber is made out of wood and a secondary resonator is made of a gourd. It has four main strings to produce the melody and three strings on the side for maintaining drone and tala (rhythm). Coarse tuning of the melodic and drone strings is controlled by the rotation of large wooden pegs. [...]]]></description>
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