Raag Jog on Giant Surbahar - KG Westman

First attempt at playing giant Surbahar... Never seen or heard about any Surbahar this big, length is 185 cm! Thanks to Niels Overgaard Petersen for passing this instrument on to me.

[@garyharmon131]

Skillful, soulful performance of a sublime piece of music on an amazing instrument. Thank you SO much for sharing this.

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

Thank you!

[@angarasrihari]

I am just mesmerized. I lost count of the time listening to you Westman san. You are amazing.

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

Thank you so much! You are very kind.

[@mlmadhu3362]

Brilliant! Thoroughly enjoyed it! The depth of the sound tugs you in.

[@ssoupayan]

Sounds very much like dagarvani Rudraveena. Oh the beauty of naad and nabhishruti!

[@balakuntalamsridhar5789]

What a delightful treat! Thanks.

[@kidcaper007]

Absolutely beautiful and mesmorizing!

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

Thank you so much!

[@JOHN-tk6vl]

A magnificent instrument.

[@papilot312]

What an incredible-and massive-surbahar! Incredible tone too. Please share more ragas on that instrument! ❤❤❤ 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

More is coming!

[@laura-gabrielacristea9159]

frumos interpretat frumoasă raga 💖🥰👐

[@supratimdas1234]

You have succeeded in mastering the been ang of surbahar. I would humbly urge you to listen to the renditions of Pt. Santosh Banerjee for deeper insights. Thank you for the wonderful Jog.

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

Thank you so much for your kind words, but I dont think I have mastered anything after just few years of Surbahar.... I do already listen to Pt Santosh Bannerjee as he is also my Dada Guru and I enjoy his touch in alaap 🙏🎶

[@mothratemporalradio517]

I'm no sitar expert by any means, but i really enjoyed this 🍃🐜🎼

[@ravindraskulkarni]

Beautiful 🌹

[@sharanjeetmand]

Beautiful

[@johnhulsker1453]

Wow! I play possess surbahar but this is just amazing!!

[@arpanmhr]

ITS MAGICAL

[@sunnyshine762]

Wah ji wah!

[@baskaranganesan9006]

So deep and intensely captivating

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

Thank you so much!

[@smartmandar]

Very nice

[@anand86100]

Deep meditative Raag Jog. Rare to find a westerner playing dhrupad with such maturity. Surbahar is meant for dhrupad and you handled it excellently. Who is your guru?

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

Thank you for your comment. I have been learning from Pt Rabindra Goswamiji since 2006, mostly sitar, but starting to look into Dhrupad a bit now.

[@hamzafan]

KG, your music is an inspiration! The size of a surbahar is limited to only two factors: the size of available gourds, and the size of available wood for the tabli. So, I am curious, how wide IS the tabli? and, what is the length of the scale? Many thanks!

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

Thank you so much! Tabli is 64cm wide but scale I have to check...

[@hamzafan]

@@shardamusicstudio2596 Amazing. And the gourd is apparently wider. One imagines good-quality wood of this width is nearly impossible to find. It must take great hand and finger strength to play this instrument!

[@LISIISNI]

Very good :D

[@varunp601]

Deep sounds

[@plinthley]

Loved it, thank you,.

[@JFairweather]

It is impossible to find one of these huge surbahars. In the mid sixties Rikhi Ram developed what is hot the standard size and the manufacturing of the large ones seems to hav ceased.. I've been looking for a couple of years. Any of this size would have been made in the 50s or earlier. I know that Pt Mukherjee has one but I haven't found a video of him playing itt.

[@samdbz8680]

Go to india my friend plus the trip in it self is already reason to ho

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

This one was custom made by Radha Krishna Sharma in 1980. I read there was a large one in the family of Ustad Imrat Khan, but it was still smaller than this. This size I wouldn´t recommend to any person who is not very tall.

[@opinionmonger]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4mZoJ6Jfp5keZI Budhaditya Mukherjee playing Surbahar. I was fortunate to attend this concert in person. In Mumbai. I think 2017.

[@mothratemporalradio517]

@@shardamusicstudio2596 incredible tone and resonance even over a horrible mobile phone speaker. Magic!

[@mothratemporalradio517]

@@samdbz8680 are you saying you know how to track down this instrument? ;) Maybe one day I'll be lucky enough to visit your amazing ancient world heritage ruins ✌️

[@syedalishanzaidi1]

Beautiful tonal quality, sustained long meend notes, and more than well-played Jog. Who is the artist performing here? He looks Western European. Unusually long stem and large size of this instrument. Worth producing copies of it. But where did the large gourd come from, or is this a wooden box acting in place of a natural gourd?

[@PatrickVedlog]

KG Westman

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

Thank you for your kind words! Yes, even in this size surbahar there is a natural gourd.

[@johnhulsker1453]

Don't forget, rudra veena gourds are immense,

[@varunp601]

Habba sound engide andre, ondh ondh string pluck'u ello nam shushumna nadi ne pluck madi nam body'le reverberate adhang idhe

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

That's a Big Sitar. Surbahar is Big Sitar.

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

Yes, in some aspect it is like a big sitar.

[@sunchylde]

Crazy, ... I mean you're like 1,90 tall and look like a dwarf compared to this 😆✌️

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

😂 yes its crazy!

[@playeveryday01]

Are you playing in C sharp ?

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

Sitar is C# or D usually, Surbahar G# or A, but this large one was tuned to F# here

[@playeveryday01]

@@shardamusicstudio2596 amazing thank you for the correction.

[@khalidshah5048]

Sounds horrible

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

@@khalidshah5048 thank you for your feedback. What can I do to improve?

[@louislamonte334]

You are a great inspiration to me! It's my dream to play the Surbahar!

[@shardamusicstudio2596]

@@louislamonte334 im so happy to hear that 🙏