I have been playing the Mridangam[1] for the past several years. My guru is Shri. T. S. Nandakumar from Bombay. I really enjoy playing the Mridangam and have played for lots of concerts in Bombay and other cities in India and also in the USA.
I will be glad to answer any questions regarding the instrument and the way it is played. Thanks for visiting this page.
Some pictures of the Mridangam:
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I had once made a schematic of the different strokes employed in our style of playing the mridangam. The fingers that do not impact the mridangam for a particular stroke are not shown. Feel free to download the document in postscript or pdf format.
Mridangam acoustics
Includes scans of papers by Prof. C. V. Raman.
Glossary of mridangam jargon
A list
of great artists.
[1] The Mridangam is a two sided drum used primarily as an accompanying instrument in the South Indian classical music form known as Karnataka Sangeetam (also referred to as Karnatic music in English).
This page was last updated July 19, 2007.