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Evolution Of The Hansaveena :
A highly evolved form of the Guitar being played as an Indian Classical Instrument
The sheer genius of Pandit Ravi Shankar, who so far had created Ragas, a host of superb musical compositions keeping the whole World enthralled, has now given a new vent to his creativity.
On 7th April, 2000 Panditji unveiled to the World of Indian Classical Music, a new instrument, christened by him as "Hansa Veena".
The Instrument Ravi Shankar disclosed in a ceremony organised at Delhi at his place on his 80th birthday, is an evolution from the Indian Classical Guitar.Same evening, the launching of Hansa Veena was done by an inagaural performance of his senior desciple BarunKumar Pal. Sri Pal who is the pioneer in introducing the improvised Hawaiian Slide Guitar as an instrument to play Indian Classical Music on it.
Apart from playing Sitar for more than six decades, Panditji has been working with several other Indian and Western Instruments, deeply analyzing their characters for their best utilization. Panditji had now conceptualised and implemented several brilliant basic modifications to the Guitar played as Indian Classical Instrument, to make it now a complete and compact instrument to competently render the delicate nuances of Ragas. A totally new Indian Instrument is born. He makes a historic addition to the World of Indian Classical Instrument.
Later, HansaVeena was officially launched at different places of India, UK, Singapore, Canada and USA. National and International TV channels like DoorDarshan, ANI-News, ATN, Sony-News etc spread this news with Sri Pals concerts and lecture demonstrations on this Instrument.
Newspapers like Times Of India, Telegraph, Hindusthan Times, Statesman, Business Standard, Sambad Pratidin and others covered launching events of HansaVeena organised by Rajya Sangeet Academy(West Bengal Govt), Salt Lake Cultural Association of Calcutta, Aurobindo Ashram of Pondicherry and Auroville, Indian Embassy of UK, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata and others. Within a short time, Hansa Veena has become a very popular Instrument for its beautiful tone and wider recognation.
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