RUDRA VEENA
Rudra Vina
An excellent site with detailed information on the instrument, the history, the musicians, the music and more

Chandrakantha Rudra Vina
Information and videos

INSTRUMENTS
India Instruments
Excellent source for Indian Instruments.  Top quality customer service

Tarang Indian Instruments
Another good source for Indian Instruments.  

Tarang Indian Instruments
Another good source for Indian Instruments.  

Andy's Music, Chicago
Andy's offers high quality Rudra Veenas.

DMS - Delhi Musical Stores
Specialising in Harmoniums, Tabla, Sitar and All other kinds of North Indian Musical Instruments Since 1970.  Manufacturers and Exporters of Finest quality Indian Musical Instruments... including Rudra Veena

RUDRA VEENA MAKERS
RA Sitarmaker
Miraj, India

Nitai Chandra Nath
35/181 Jangambali, Varanasi.
Near International Music Ashram, Bengali Tola.
Nitai has built excellent veenas.  His son, Tarak, now runs the shop.  Tarak has built Dagar-style Rudra Veenas for Asit Kumar Banerjee.

Shahidsaheb
Bharatiya Tantuvadya Kendra, Miraj, India

RUDRA VEENA REPAIR / RESTORE
Scott Hackleman
Taught by Murari Adhikari of KanaiLal&Bros
Point Roberts, WA U.S.A.

Click HERE to view photos of Rudra Veenas owned by Thomas Marcotty and restored by Scott Hackleman

Click HERE to view photos of a Dagar Rudra Veena

Tony Karasek
Actively involved in all aspects of India's music for over 30 years doing extensive instrument repairs, adjustments to concert artist's specifications, appraisals, teaching and performing.

STRINGS
The Instrument Workshop
Lutz has everything you need for Phosphor Bronze Wire and Roeslau Music Wire.  The website can be hard to navigate, but this link displays their address, email address and phone number.  When sending email, include '7777' (with the single quotes) in the Subject, to get past the spam security.

Monoj Kr. Sardar & Bros.
An excellent source for Karuna brand strings and Indian Musical Instruments.
Karaj:  Karuna Tanpura Double Winding # 18
Pa:  Karuna Tanpura Double Winding # 20

DHRUPAD
Dhrupad of the Dagar Tradition
Dhrupad classical North Indian temple and court music - a site maintained by veena player, Glynn Snellgrove

A Portrait of Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar
With a link to a film by Shaina Anand.  The short video was shot over a day at Dhrupad Sansar, Ustad Fariduddin Dagar's residence on the IIT Bombay campus

Chandra & David's Homepage
Click on the Dhrupad & Rudra Vina Forum.

Dhrupad-inside
Here you will find soon lots of information on Dhrupad as well as video & audio samples from Dhrupad performances.

Dhrupad Vocal and Sarangi
Marianne Svasek studied Indian classical singing at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and Uday Bhawalkar.  Since 1994 she is being taught in India by Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar.  She studied sarangi with Joep Bor and Pandit Ram Narayan.

SOUND / MUSIC THERAPY
Sound relaxation with the Rudra Veena
Thomas Meisenheimer:  Sound therapy for harmonization and deep relaxation.

SOFTWARE
AP Tuner 
A great free software tuner!  This one works better than most hardware tuners that you buy at a music store.   It's shareware, but it's not disabled in any way.  Excellent for tuning sitars, tablas and as a pitch pipe for voice.

Simple Metronome
A program that keeps time for you.  Includes built in sounds, and allows you to use your own wave files to keep the beat.   Includes a tap-tempo feature - it figures  MM speed markings from beats you tap into your mouse.

BestPractice - A great little practice tool that lets you slow down, loop, and change the pitch of any wave file or CD recording.  It also removes vocals from recordings so that you can hear the instrumental parts better.

Audacity
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.  It does multi track recording, and it's great for putting parts together because you can edit the sounds visually.  You can also use it to slow down and change the pitch of recordings, so that they're easier to learn.  It's one of the best learning tools available, and it's powerful enough to create commercial recordings - even full length albums.  It's a very small download, and it runs on virtually any computer platform.

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MISCELLANEOUS
Deep Music
Deep Space, Deep Sound, Deep Thought, Deep Music

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