Overview

The Vichitra vina is a stringed instrument like the rudra vina except it has no frets. It is played with a slide like a Hawaiian guitar. The Vichitra Veena is the modern form of ancient Ekatantri Veena.[2] It is made of a broad, fretless, horizontal arm or crossbar (dand) around three feet long and six inches wide, with two large resonating gourds (tumba), which are inlaid with ivory and attached underneath at either end. The narrow ends of the instrument are fashioned into peacock heads, the national bird of India.

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