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Thread: Mridangam Repair and Other Mridangam Aspects

  1. 9th March 2005, 07:50 AM #41
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    Kumaran Ravendradas (@ popl*) on: Fri Oct 15 12:44:51 EDT 20




    Oh and another thing.....

    Where should one wet it?
    On the skin or on the ravai itself....




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    Nick H (UK) (@ nhay*) on: Sat Oct 16 07:35:25 EDT 2004




    If the ravai dries it will harden and loose flexibility. It must be flexible to give good sound.





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    k.ravendradas (@ popl*) on: Tue Oct 19 06:23:20 EDT 2004




    Often when a mridangam is brand new the thoppi is often very high and tight. Is this normal? and is it normal for it lose this natural as it used over many concerts?




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    k.ravendradas (@ popl*) on: Tue Oct 19 06:28:51 EDT 2004




    Often when a mridangam is brand new the thoppi is often very high and tight. Is this normal? and is it normal for it lose this natural tension as it used over many concerts?




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    Nick H (UK) (@ nhay*) on: Thu Oct 21 10:19:01 EDT 2004




    KR... I was hoping that one of the more experienced players would answer, but THey're probably all busy playing navaratri programs.

    My experience same as yours! Maybe it needs a little loosening (tuning with stone & stick, this got discussed earlier in this thread.




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    Kumaran Ravendradas (@ popl*) on: Wed Oct 27 05:26:38 EDT 20




    I have obtained the title Sangeetha Kalajothy!!!

    (Nick send me a pic showing the amount of ravai you put on your thoppi)




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    Kumaran Ravendradas (@ popl*) on: Wed Oct 27 05:39:28 EDT 20




    Once one has put on the mridangam heads and they need to do fine tuning do they use a polished stone to reduce the pitch by rubbing it on the black part of right side?




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    Nick H (UK) (@ nhay*) on: Wed Oct 27 13:29:52 EDT 2004




    Kumaran: you should find an excusae to spend time with my guruji! (I met your guruji at his house the other day, BTW).

    The kind of fine-tuning that you are talking about is to make chapu and meetu exactly the same note.

    A little black can be removed by EVER_SO_SLIGHTLY dampening it and scraping a little away. It can then be polished.

    I've seen my guruji do this a number of times, but would be very reluctant to try it.

    BTW I'm off back to India. I might have some mridangams for sale!

    Oh, and I don't use ravai, I use TVG paste. But I'm always surprised at how little my guruji uses.
    Maybe because he uses a lot of gamuka it keeps the skins loose, I don't know




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    Nick H (UK) (@ nhay*) on: Wed Oct 27 13:31:22 EDT 2004




    Oh! Congratulations, but tell us more. Who awards Sangeetha Kalajothy?




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    Kumaran Ravendradas (@ popl*) on: Wed Oct 27 16:10:13 EDT 20




    the OFAAL award after one has done the Diploma exam. I passed with Distinction!!

    TVG paste??? explain..... i am rather intrigued...




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