Features
|
Traditional Flute |
Newly Developed Flute 'Keshav Venu' |
Origin |
Vedic Age (minimum 10,000 years ago or before) |
New creation in late 20th Century |
Diameter & Length |
Varied |
Dia (Inner) 1" x Length 42" |
Total Number of holes inclusive of blowing hole |
7 or 8 |
12 |
Range of "Octaves" |
2 to maximum 2.5 |
3.5 & above |
Meend - sliding from one note to other note |
Less than one Octave |
More than 1.5 Octaves |
Raga Astheticity |
Less asthetical appeal in view of inherent limitations |
Asthetically perfect and profound. Conforms to classical grammer with a huge range of notes available. |
Necessity of additional flute for Base note octaves |
Second flute absolutely essential for playing for Base notes |
Second flute not required. Single flute can produce 3.5 octaves. |
Loss of Tonal quality |
Using two different flutes one after another introduces discontinuity during switches adversely affecting the aesthetics of the raga. |
No change - single flute is played for 3.5 Octaves. Hence aesthetic of Raga is maintained very much effectively. |
Rendering Ragas like vocalist |
Suffers from several limitations |
No limitation. Can equal a vocalist. More so, special flute effects of replications of notes possible ( impossible in any instrument or in vocal) |
Creativity |
Less creative, possesses only maximum 2.5 Octave range |
More creative, possesses range of 3.5 octaves i.e. additional half octave available for musical creativity |
