Santoor I Duduk II Indo-Armenian collaboration I World Music I Sandip Chatterjee I Harutyun Chkolyan



“WHEN WIND MEETS STRINGS” It’s all about Indo-Armenian Music collaboration between Santoor and Duduk, where Duduk represents wind and Santoor, represents strings. Sandip and Harutyun met each other in a common musical project in Bangladesh in the year 2019. After that, their friendship began and their interest and respect to each other’s art form given the idea of this collaboration. During this pandemical crisis period, they thought to make this collaboration successful. Getting the advantage of each other’s personal studios, they shared recordings to each other sitting in the different zones like India and Armenia and mixed in India @ STUDIO SC COMMUNICATION.

ABOUT SANTOOR:

The Indian santoor instrument is a trapezoid-shaped hammered dulcimer and a variation of the Iranian Santur. The instrument is generally made of walnut. In ancient Sanskrit texts, it has been referred to as shatatantri vina (100-stringed vina).In Kashmir, the Santoor was used to accompany folk music. It is played in a style of music known as the Sufiana Mausiqi. Some researchers slot it as an improvised version of a primitive instrument played in the Mesopotamian times (1600-900 B.C.) Sufi mystics used it as an accompaniment to their hymns. In Indian santoor playing, the specially-shaped mallets (kalam) are lightweight and are held between the index and middle fingers. A typical santoor has two sets of bridges, providing a range of three octaves. The Indian santoor is more rectangular and can have more strings than its Persian counterpart, which generally has 72 strings. Musical instruments very similar to the santoor are traditionally used all over the world. Prototypes of the santoor with similar or different names have also been in vogue for years in countries like China, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Iran, etc. The basis of the principle of sound production in the santoor was later applied to the making of the modern pianoforte in which the strings are struck by mechanical keys. The Indian version, i.e. santoor, is trapezoidal in shape and played with two wooden sticks.

ABOUT DUDUK:

The duduk or tsiranapogh, is a double-reed instrument with ancient origins, having existed since at least the fifth century, while there are Armenian scholars who believe it existed more than 1,500 years before that. The earliest instruments similar to the duduk’s present form are made of bone or entirely of cane. Today, the duduk is exclusively made of wood with a large double reed, with the body made from aged apricot wood. The particular tuning depends heavily on the region in which it is played. In the twentieth century, the Armenian duduk began to be standardized diatonic in scale and single-octave in range. Accidentals or chromatics are achieved using fingering techniques. The instrument’s body also has different lengths depending upon the range of the instrument and region. The reed (Armenian: եղեգն, eġegn), is made from one or two pieces of cane in a duck-bill type assembly. Unlike other double-reed instruments, the reed is quite wide, helping to give the duduk both its unique, mournful sound, as well as its remarkable breath requirements. The duduk player is called dudukahar (դուդուկահար) in Armenian. The performer uses air stored in their cheeks to keep playing the instrument while they inhale air into their lungs. This “circular” breathing technique is commonly used with all the double-reed instruments in the Middle East. Duduk “is invariably played with the accompaniment of a second dum duduk, which gives the music an energy and tonic atmosphere, changing the scale harmoniously with the principal duduk.

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