Rare Pro-Grade 8-hole Chromatic 13" Artiste-Tuned Carnatic Indian Transverse Flute (Pulangoil Bansuri)

Artiste-made and signed Zen-brand masterflute for concert-grade performance in the notes of G or A. The bamboo has been burnt and roasted carefully to ensure long life and fabulous woody overtones like only a quality bamboo flute can provide. This is a pro-grade individually-tuned handmade flute and not the mass-manufactured cheap souvenier Indian or Native American flutes that litter ebay.

This is an 8-hole Carnatic flute in G, the closest to a Western flute, and requires different fingering from the traditional 6-hole bansuri. The Indian flute utilizes a chromatic scale similar to th Western flute.We have them in the following notes: 5-1/2 G# (13.5") or 6-1/2 A# (12"). Both have relatively easy fingering compared to our super large 30" and 24" GG bass bansuris that are also on sale on ebay.

Indian flutes have a range of approximately three octaves. The best woodflutes are made of rare Sunderbans bamboo reeds and are almost invariably hand made. The Indian flutei is striking in both its simplicity and richness. Originally a folk instrument, the bansuri has evolved a dazzling classical repertoire and found its way into the contemporary jazz and world music scene.

The Indian flute produces some of the world's most melodic and melancholic music. It's a great new instrument to learn and even amateurs can derive terrific joy and comfort from this elegant instrument with heavenly soul-soothing sounds. .

Difference between a Bansuri (Hindustani) and a Pulangoil (Canatic)

Unlike the bansuri that has spaced out holes, the keyless pulangoil has eight closely placed holes from the other end. The flute is capable of producing two and half octaves with the help of blowing - overblowing and cross-fingering. The flute is like the human voice in that it is monophonous and also has the two and half octaves sound reproduction.  Listen to the late T.R.Mahalingam who was one of the best exponents of the Carnatic flute.

For a Carnatic pulangoil flute recital, click here to listen online. Remember, that both the bansuri and the pulangoil can be made to sound similar in that you can play Hindustani music on the pulangoil but you cannot play Carnatic music quite that easily on the bansuri.