Legendary santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passes away

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences over the demise of Pandit Shivkumar Sharma Ji.

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.