Looking for a Bansuri Maker
Roby
I want to buy a better bansuri, and I would be interested to learn
about more bansuri Makers in Europe, India and USA. Could anybody
recommend some?
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Thanks Roby Schiltz
Haresh
Hello Roby, for better -s (flutes) as well as more info on flute
makers, please visit
http://www.Sudeepaudio.com
Regards,
Haresh.
Josh
Roby-
Contact Leslie at the Ali Akbar College of Indian Music(
1-800-748-2252) and get info on Jeff Whittier. He makes the flutes
that they sell in their store. There is an Italian gentleman who
comes from time to time to study at the school who also makes fine
flutes. His last name escapes me, but his first name is Lorenzo.
Leslie will have info on both makers. Josh
margu
> comes from time to time to study at the school who also makes fine
> flutes. His last name escapes me, but his first name is Lorenzo.
> Leslie will have info on both makers. Josh
The full name is Lorenzo Squillari, his my bansuri teacher and makes
flutes here in Italy...If you are interested I can give you his
contact info...
Roby
Hello Margu,
Yes I am interested as I am living in Austria. How can I contact
him?Does he have an emailaddress?
Thanks Roby
margu
> Thanks Roby
Sure Roby,
his email is loren...@libero.it. If you have any problem in
contacting him, please feel free to contact me personally
(meren...@libero.it)and I can call him on the phone.
If you wish you can tell him I (Marged, his desciple at the Italian
Conservatory) gave you his email.
Merry xmas and all the best!!!
Marged
margu
http://www.buckinghammusic.com/bansuri/bansuri.html
http://music.calarts.edu/~bansuri/pages/bansuri.html
Roby
Thanks a lot
I will contact him. Roby
meren...@libero.it (margu) wrote in message news:<5fc02db7.03122...@posting.google.com>...
Roby
After an research in the internet I have now found 2 more
Bansuri-makers.
The first one is Marc Khaďm Seligmann who lives in France Under the
following link you find more information:
http://www.musictradgard.com/seligmann/tradanglais.htm
The second one is Harsh Wardhan from Delhi.His webpage is
http://www.wardhan.com/
Roby
Prasad Bhandarkar
recommendable. They are used by many leading Hindustani flute players
including Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasia.
- Prasad
"Roby" <rschi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Nayakan
I know of an shop that sells EXCELLENT bansuris in
Mumbai. The owner is Anand Dhotre; his father,
Ramchandra Dhotre, was a phenomenal bansuri maker.
He died a few years ago. Anand's father had
a collection of hundreds, if not thousands, of these
wonderful flutes that he had made, in every pitch
that you might want. I don't know whether Anand makes
his own flutes or just sells his father's; I hope
he is carrying on the tradition.
I have bought many a flute from Dhotre and every one
of them is perfect, has a wonderful timbre, and is
treated to withstand weather fluctuations.
The interesting part about Dhotre's store is that
if you saw it, you wouldn't even guess that this
guy makes amazing flutes. He has a small roadside
store, not even a proper shop, just a folding table
with some flutes stacked up on it,
outside Darbar Hindu hotel in BB Dadar, close to
the Western railway station. If you happen to go
there (you will have to travel on foot near the station;
a car/taxi will have a hellish time due to the sheer
mass of humanity populating the area), you can ask
anyone about Darbar Hindu hotel and, near the area,
people will know about Anand Dhotre. If you look
at his store, it seems like he is a low-grade
person selling cheap flutes as trinkets. But
when you ask seriously about good flutes, he will
take you to a storage area underneath a bookstore
somewhere a while away, in this elaborate maze of
narrow side streets and tenements that is BB Dadar
...in this storage area, there are hundreds of
flutes ... and you can pick what you want; he will
allow you to check the pitch using an instrument,
(I believe it was some German pitch-checking thingy)
to your satisfaction. I remember my father looking
in disbelief and puzzlement as R.Dhotre and I,
crouching in this very small space below the bookstore,
in the brutal and punishing summer heat of Bombay,
were checking the pitches and the quality of the
flutes! The prices are incredibly
low considering the very high quality. What I
found most interesting is that there is an
established musical instruments shop in the same
area, called Haribhau Vishwanath, a proper shop
with glass windows and such, mind you, which also sells
flutes, but Dhotre's flutes easily outclass HV's.
HV's flutes' pitch perfection was not even close
to Dhotre's. In fact, I am told that many top
concert flutists buy their flutes from Dhotre.
I have tried one of Jeff Whittier's flutes, from
a friend, and I much preferred Dhotre's flutes, mainly
from a timbre standpoint, but also from a pitch
standpoint. I would have tried more of Whittier's
flutes, but given that I go once every few years to
India, and that the most expensive of Dhotre's flutes
were just priced at $20 or so, I didn't see the point.
(If I remember right, the last time I checked the AACM
store, several years ago, the cheapest flute there,
made by JW, cost about $20 ... for those who don't
know, the price of a bansuri goes up as the base
pitch of the bansuri goes down ... and the lower-pitched
flutes are what the concert musicians, like Chaurasia,
use, because of their resonant tone. It takes a LOT
of skill to get the pitch of these bass flutes correct.)
Hope you find this useful. The last time I went there,
a couple months ago, I got Anand's business card. I hope
I still have it with me; if so, if anyone is interested,
I can post contact information.
Kumar
p.s.
One of the sad things I saw was that here was this truly
gifted artist/artisan, who was creating these truly divine
musical instruments, who lived in a hand-to-mouth existence.
R.Dhotre, in fact, gave me a news clipping which appeared,
I think, in the Indian Express, which documented cases of
police harassment against him ... how they had beaten him
black and blue, thrown him out of the street, etc....and
I could only think that these people should be protected
so they could perpetuate their craft so it wouldn't die
out. It is a painful story.
Amusicwork
an excellent musician, he has been making flutes for over thirty years and will
generously make a flute to order and honestly and knowledgeably answer
questions you might have about the instrument in general or one in particular.
Top Indian classical musicians buy his flutes and many Western classical studio
musicians and several international productions of The Lion King, Miss Saigon
and Aida are all using his flutes, each being accommodated by Mr. Whittier to
fit very particliar pitch specifications. One of his accomplishments as a
craftsman of bansuri is to be able to successfully make a flute with three
good working octaves, a challenge that most bamboo flutemakers have not been
able to meet.
His email is: bans...@aol.com
All the best,
Leslie
madr...@gmail.com
the mail is baco...@hotmail.com