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In the early decades of the twentieth century, the santoor or shata-tantri Veena as it was called in earlier times, was used as an accompaniment to a specific type of singing called ''sufiana mausiqi''. When Pandit Uma Dutt Sharma, a renowned vocalist from Jammu and a disciple of Pandit Bade Ramdasji of Benaras Gharana discovered the instrument, he became interested by its possibilities. After extensive research on the instrument he passed on to his only son Shivkumar the responsibility of establishing it on the concert platform. Shivkumar Sharma is the master instrumentalist of the Santoor , after some years as a student of the Tabla and as a vocalist. He is credited with single-handedly making the santoor a popular classical instrument, to the extent that the santoor and Pandit Shivkumar Sharma are synonymous. Sharma modified the Kashmir i folk instrument to make it more suitable for his classical technique, increasing the range of the instrument to three full octaves and making it capable of a smoother ''meend'' (the Glissando or gliding between notes required in Hindustani classical music to emulate the human voice). Besides, he also created a new technique of playing with which he could sustain notes and maintain sound continuity. Today the santoor is the equal of any classical instrument, well established not just all over India, but across the globe. Sharma has performed many concerts with renowned musicians such as the Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain . He has also partnered with well-known flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia to form a group called Shiv-Hari for composing Hindi Film Music . His son Rahul is also a santoor player. Rahul started accompanying his father in concerts in 1996, at the age of 24. In 1999 they released Sampradaya on Real World Records. Shivkumar Sharma is the recipient of a long list of national and international awards including honorary citizenship of the city of Baltimore, USA ( 1985 ), Sangeet Natak Academy Award (1986), Maharashtra Gaurav Puraskar (1990), Honorary Doctorate from the University of Jammu ( 1991 ), Padmashree (1991), Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan Award ( 1998 ), and Padma Vibhushan ( 2001 ). EXTERNAL LINKS http://www.santoor.com |
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