Shruti Box vs. Electronic Tanpura

Topic started by anurati (@ 254.sanjose-03-04rs16rt.ca.dial-access.att.net) on Sun Sep 8 02:06:00 .
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What is the difference between a shruti box and an electronic tanpura? i'm just curious..i've never seen a shruti box before tho..

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From: nick (@ 106.235.35.212.in-addr.arpa.ip-pool.cix.co.uk) on: Sun Sep 8 13:23:25

Shruti box just plays continuous 'chord'. I think the manual original was called a sruiti peti?
Electronic tampura imitates plucking of strings.
From: pramodh (@ acb6ea37.ipt.aol.com) on: Sun Sep 8 17:39:55

Yes thats right. A srut box sounds similar to Harmonium sruti bt a different tone.

An electronic tampura attempts to mimic the tampura. Of course the tone is different and you can make a similar comparision between music heard from a highly compressed digital source like mp3 and an extremely sophisticated LP record player connected to a top class valve amplifier.
From: pramodh (@ acb6ea37.ipt.aol.com) on: Sun Sep 8 17:41:41

The sruti box is used usually by nadhaswaram vidwans (for reasons I do not know) and also by bhajan singers. Its comparitively slightly cheaper than the electronic sruti
From: nick (@ 99.235.35.212.in-addr.arpa.ip-pool.cix.co.uk) on: Mon Sep 9 05:23:53

I noticed when I saw Nadaswaram/Thavil recently that they used a manual struti box. I am guessing: tambura would have no chance of being audible to a nadaswaram player, sruti box is simple.
From: meena (@ user-1121ck7.dsl.mindspring.com) on: Mon Sep 9 15:06:19

anurati,
u'll find ans. to ur query at http://www.radelindia.com/
From: Thanjavooran (@ ppp-219.65.118.183.chn.vsnl.net.in) on: Sun Aug 29 17:58:40

Thiruvenkadu Subramania Pillai was the first vidwan to use tampura and mrudangam for his concerts