carnatic flute

The Carnatic flute also called kuzhal or pulangoil is an 9 holed bamboo flute. The flute is keyless and fingers are used to close and open the holes. It has one hole at one end where you blow in air and eight closely placed holes from the other end. The flute is capable of producing two and half octaves with the help of blowing - overblowing and cross fingering. The flute is like the human voice in that it is monophonous and also has the two and half octaves sound reproduction. Some of the exponents of the Carnatic flute are:

Late T.R.Mahalingam - A child prodigy who started at the age of five years. He is most popularly know as "Mali" or sometimes "Flute Mali".
Dr.N.Ramani - Disciple of T.R.Mahalingam
Late B.N.Suresh
K.S.Gopalakrishnan
Sikkhil Sisters
Shashank - A child prodigy who started to play the flute at the age of six years and give his first concert performance at the age of twelve years.

Carnatic Flute

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