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 He longed to shake off the glory he
inevitably had to share with his Grammy-winning
father. Salil Bhatt, son and disciple of Pt.
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, has inherited both the musical
skill and the ambition.
Instead of making do with
the sitar or any other Indian stringed instrument,
Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt modified the Hawaiian
guitar to create the Mohan Veena, which replicates
the unbroken flow of vocal music, difficult to
draw out of instruments. Salil, who grew up
mastering his father's invention, has now shaped
his own identity — the Satvik Veena, designed for
more depth, continuity and richness.
The Satvik Veena does away with the need to tune the instrument
all the time, and of the 19 strings, 12 are
sympathetic strings that provide resonance when they
vibrate in tune with the main strings. Being an
adaptation of the Mohan Veena, it is also played lap
style by sliding a steel rod on the strings and
strumming it simultaneously. The enhanced aesthetics
give its sound the semblance of gayaki ang played to
perfection on the traditional Indian stringed
instrument.
Salil's 7-year-old son, Satvik, is next
in the line of family musicians, and is already in
the Time magazine and Limca Book of Records
for being the youngest person in the world to
identify more than 80 ragas. |
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