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Mysore Gazetteer Vol-2 Part-2, 1930

8 lines. Read by computer on 14 September 2026. Printed page 396. See the scan on archive.org.

1Sāstri. Among local proficients, Vidwān Vīna Sēshanna (later Vainikasikhāmani) must be mentioned. During the time of the present Mahārāja, a great impetus has been given to music in all its branches—Karnātic, Hindustāni as well as English—and the art may be said to have assumed a new phase altogether. An orchestra of Karnātic musicians has been formed and another of Hindustāni musicians. An attempt is also being made to introduce an element of harmony into Indian Music and several instruments such as Vīna, Violin, Jalatarang and Harmonium are played in unison so as to produce a very good musical effect.
3Mysore is famous for its excellence in vīna-playing. There are three centres in Southern India (namely, Mysore, Vizianagaram and Travancore) where Vīna is practised on a large scale and where there have appeared from time to time eminent artists. The gracefulness of style, clearness of intonation and softness of execution, perfected by Sēshanna, have won for Mysore the premier position in the art of vīna-playing in the whole of India. Rudrapatna and Bettadapura are villages in the State where music, vocal as well as instrumental, is cultivated to some extent. At Hunasenahalli, in Goribidnur Taluk, there existed a number of good vīna-players and a small Inām of lands is said to have been given to one of them by a former Ruler of Mysore in recognition of his attainments.
5At Māgadi and Mysore good Vīnas are made. Māgadi is noted also for the manufacture of Tambūras. Steel strings for Violin, Vīna and Tambūra are made at Channapatna and exported to several places throughout India.
7It has been stated above that musical instruments of different kinds are to be seen represented in the sculptural art of Mysore. The flute is frequently to be seen

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