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Stores that sell Indian music, Books & Musical Instruments:
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1. Stores that sell Indian music
2. Publishers of Indian Music
3. Sources for Books
4. Sources for Musical Instruments
5. How to contribute to this list
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Recent Updates:
Shrimati's catalog is no longer free and costs $3.
- S. Panini, pan...@druid.hsc.colorado.edu.
Added Entry for Harmonia Mundi USA
- hm...@netcom.com
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1. Music Sources:
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Shrimati's
2011 University Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone:(510) 548-6220 Tu through Su 11am-6pm
Fax:(510) 548-1838
Almost complete selection of CDs, cassettes and LPs.
Very professional service. Will send a full catalog and periodic
updates for $3. Unusually catalog cassettes also. The prices are
'standard', so will be cheaper to buy at your nhbd grocery store,
but don't you want to patronize a well run business? The CD catalog
now is about 2500 titles; when it was smaller, used to include
a photocopy of the inlay cards. Catalog is well organized.
Asmara House
5568 Sepulveda Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90230, USA.
Ph. (310) 398 0080
Fax:
Mail Order:Yes
Only CDs. Catalog costs about $10
Vista India
1628 Oak Tree Rd, Edison, NJ 08820
Ph:(908) 494-9155
Fax:(908) 549-9765
Fair stock of CDs
No catalog for cassettes, CD catalog somewhat sloppy. Prices 'standard'.
Inarticulate salesman.
Ziba music/gift center
behind Standard Sweets on Pioneer Blvd
Artesia, CA 90701
Ph: 310 402-5194
New store, so polite but inefficient service. Stock some cassette
labels such as Atlantis that are not stocked by mainstream stores.
Not sure if they do mail order.
Indian Cultural Academy
4 Trodden Path
Lexington, MA 02173-8202
(617) 862-7852
Do mail order.
Not clear from the name what the Academy does, but they stock an
excellent selection of Carnatic music cassettes, including many
live recordings. Prompt and efficient service, accompanied by an
honest recommendation to retape the prerecorded cassettes from India
onto good quality tapes. Their list gets posted on the net occasionally.
V.U.Arts and Music
1593 Central avenue., Suite 222, Albany NY 12205, USA
Catalog: Available free, updates also free on request
tel # 518 274 7895
Fairly complete selection, catalog could be a little better. Maintain
a computer data base of music. Also send out a newsletter. Prices slightly
cheaper than Shrimati's.
TOWER RECORDS
Your neighboring tower records store stocks quite a few Indian CDs in the
international section.
World Music Institute
49 West 27th Street, Suite 810
New York NY 10001
tel: 212-545-7536
fax: 212-889-2771
Living Media India Ltd.
404 Park Avenue South
New York NY
10016
tel: 212-481-0040
fax: 212-779-8206
Att. Mr. Amrit Kakaria
Better than even chance they don't answer. I haven't been in touch
with the NY office for some time, so my info may be out of date. So
you can try the Canadian agent, who probably will, especially if you
tell him you heard about him through me:
Mr. Raj Chadha
News, Views, and Music of India
7955 Torbram Road, Unit 26
Brampton, Ontario
Canada
L6T 5B9
tel: 416-790-0793; 416-454-5049
fax: 416-454-4086
Harmonia Mundi USA
2037 Granville Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90025-6103
Phone: 310-478-1311
Fax: 310-996-1389
E-mail: hm...@netcom.com
Harmonia Mundi USA is the US distributor for
numerous labels that feature CDs of Indian classical music, including
Auvidis' Ethnic label, Inedit, Le Chant du Monde, Ocora, Silex, Auvidis'
Unesco label, and Wergo's Spectrum label.
Though most of our business is supplying retail stores, we are now
selling directly to private customers when they are unable to get the
discs they need through their local store. Our catalog is free, and you
may request one via email, phone, or fax. In the near future, I will post
a detailed listing of the discs we carry on rec.music.indian.classical.
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2. Publishers of Indian music:
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RAGA
P.O. Box 635
Village Station
New York NY 10014
Many Nikhil Banerjee live recordings.
NIMBUS
P.O. Box 7427
Charlottesville
Virginia 22906
About thirty CDs.
INDIA ARCHIVE MUSIC
2170 Broadway, Suite 343
N.Y. New York 10024
OMI Music Inc,
Unit A4-71, Rosedale Avenue
Brampton Ontario-L6X 1K4
Canada
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3. Sources for Books:
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South Asia Books
P.O.Box 502, Columbia, Missouri 65205
Phone:(314) 474-0116
Fax:(314) 474-8124
Complete selection of titles
Comments:Will send out regular price lists. Oriented
especially towards the textbook market. Assert that the only way to
beat their prices is to shop in India.
Name: Oriental Book Store
Address:1713 E. Colorodo Blvd., Pasadena, CA
Phone:
Fax:
No Mail Order.
Fantastic selection of books on all aspects of the
oriental countries (includes Australia in this store).
Owner epitomizes the term 'jerk'. Try the other places first.
Name:The Karnatic Music Book Center
14 Sripuram First St. (Near Ajanta Hotel) Royapettah Madras 600014
India
Phone:011-91-44-8260147
Pretty complete list of karnatic books, several
hindustani. Main source for Subba Rao's Raganidhi
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4. Sources for Musical Instruments:
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Ali Akbar College of Music
215 West End Ave, San Rafael, CA 94901
Phone: (415) 454-0581
Fax:
North Indian Musical Instruments
Encinatas Imports
P.O. Box 230419-I, Encinatas, CA 92023
Phone:(619) 436-9589
Fax:
Send $1 for catalog
Nelson Dass SARASWATI INSTRUMENTS
D'jovian International Merchants Ltd.
(Toronto, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Geneva, Istanbul)
P.O. Box 212, Station A
Etobicoke, Ontario
Canada, M9C 4V3
tel: 416-277-4234
fax: 416-277-5579
carry tanpuras, tablas, harmoniums, Swar Mandal (Harp),
Sarangi, Dilruba, Sarod, Sitars, Veena, Flutes, Beens, Santoor,
Ektari, Dholaki, Dholaks. Also, parts for all instruments, i.e. skins
for tablas etc., strings for sitars, tanpuras, etc. etc. Music books
from India.
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5. How to contribute to this list:
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Send your comments on those listed here and information about new
sources to Sridhar Venkataraman, sri...@asuvax.eas.asu.edu in the
following format:
Name:
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Phone:
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Description of Stock:
Any comments on service etc.
Please use the word UPDATE as the first word on the Subject line.
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