Lo and behold! Got the same wonderful results as before. Suspecting that it might be just coincidental - there I went ahead and made a bunch more in different sizes. Initially, to overcome this 'luck of the draw' factor, I hit upon the wild idea of building my own Bansuri! With my training and experience in mechanical engineering design & love for music, coupled with the encouragement of my reclusive teacher Swami Vibhav, the very first flute I made (it was a D# bass bansuri), was of incredible mellifluousness and had a perfect pitch. To find a good quality flute seemed more like a stroke of luck. How did I ever conjure up the idea of making one in the first place? Just after retiring from my decade and a half long entrepreneurial career in manufacturing industry, certainly manufacturing anything more was the last thing on my mind! However, prior to this, during the twenty some years of playing around with Bansuri flutes, I had become aware of the acute dearth of well tuned flutes in the market. Of course, the appreciation bestowed on my Bansuri's by flute players from all over the world, including many well-respected exponents of the instrument, also spurs me on to keep putting my very best in each flute I make. And that my passion to build Bansuri's would almost equal my passion for playing the magical instrument of Bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute.Īlthough now, it would be more correct to say that my drive and passion to build Bansuri flutes is actually propelled by my love and reverence of the ethereal sound of this ancient instrument and the great joy that I derive out of playing on it.
Several years back when I embarked upon making my first Bansuri flute I had not the least inkling that soon I would become known as a concert Bansuri maker.
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