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Legendary santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passes away
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences over the demise of Pandit Shivkumar Sharma Ji.
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Pandit Shivkumar Sharma:
- Shiv Kumar Sharma was born in Jammu in 1938 and is believed to be the first musician to have played Indian classical music on the santoor.
- Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1986, the Padma Shri in 1991, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2001.
SANTOOR:
- Type: TAT VADYA
- Santoor is a stringed instrument made of wood, steel, and bamboo.
- This is a traditional instrument, foud in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Majorly used in the traditional music of Kashmir called Sufiana Qalam.
- It has now acquired an important place as a classical music instrument.
- A trapezoid wooden box, 120 steel strings, stretched on 30 wooden bridges in sets of four on each bridge.
- Bridges are arranged in a set of fifteen on each side.
- Struck by bamboo mallets.
- It is placed on a triangular wooden stand while playing.
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