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| carnatic music instruments | |
| side-blown flutes | |
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The instrument is keyless and the fingers of both hands are used to close and open the holes. It has a blowing hole near one end, and eight closely placed finger holes. The instrument comes in various sizes. The ''venu'' is capable of producing two and half octaves with the help of blowing - overblowing and cross fingering. The flute is like the human voice in that it is monophonous and also has the two and half octaves sound reproduction. Sliding the fingers on and off the holes allows for a great degree of ornamentation, important in the performance of Raga -based music. Some of the exponents of the Carnatic flute are:
The ''venu'' is similar to the Bansuri , a bamboo flute used in the Hindustani Classical Music of North India . SEE ALSO
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