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the 8th hole remains open except in special fingerings where four fingers of each hand work with all 8 holes.įirst five fingers covered sounds Pa (or Panchamam).
First three fingers of left hand cover the top three tone holes (finger holes) and four fingers of the right one cover the four holes below. The tonic Sa (or Shadajam) is taken at first two finger holes covered. It is now considered to be the traditional style flute of south Indian. This design was subsequently adopted, improved and vastly popularized by T.R. It was through untiring efforts of Palladam Sanjeeva Rao (see image) disciple of Sarabha Shastri that flute started to be recognized as a concert instrument. Though an ancient instrument, most prevalent design of Carnatic flutes is the one which is said to have been invented by by Sharaba Shastri (1872-1904) of the Palladam school, in the beginning of the 20th century. It is commonly referred to as Carnatic or Karnatik or Karnatic flute based upon the earlier name for a large region of South India. Pulangoil, Venu, Karnatic flute, Pullanguzhal are the many names given to this unique eight-hole south Indian flute.