DESCRIPTION:
Excerpt from the Indian music concert given by Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (mohan veena), Krishna Mohan Bhatt (sitar) and Nihar Mehta (tabla). Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is one of the most celebrated shishyas (disciples) of the sitarist Ravi Shankar. He created the ‘mohan veena’ by modifying a guitar with the addition of several drone strings and eight sympathetic strings, playing it like a Hawaiian slide guitar to get the sustained, sliding notes common within the vocal style of Indian classical music. The 'mohan veena', named after himself and Vina or Veena, the generic Sanskrit word for a stringed instrument, is an instrument that appears to be a hybrid of a classical Spanish guitar and a sitar.
The concert was organized by the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 19 March 2015
Video: Syrio Production

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