{"id":20357,"date":"2023-12-23T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=20357"},"modified":"2023-12-23T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T01:54:11","slug":"meet-chennais-instrument-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2023\/12\/23\/meet-chennais-instrument-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Chennai&#8217;s Instrument Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, December 20, 2023 (The Hindu): Come December, and Chennai springs to life with the sound of Carnatic music. Sabhas \u2014 as performing spaces are referred to \u2014 come alive, as vocalists and instrumentalists put forth their best performances, dishing out popular and rare kritis and varnams. It\u2019s not just the city\u2019s rasikas who look forward to this Margazhi season. Also waiting with bated breath are Chennai\u2019s instrument makers. How are they gearing up for the season? We visited some of the prominent instrument centers in Chennai &#8211; Valangaiman VAS Mridangam Makers, The Sruthilaya, Chandru Musicals and Saptaswara Musicals.<br><br>Short video at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Cx87U7TJH3c?feature=shared\n\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Cx87U7TJH3c?feature=shared<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, December 20, 2023 (The Hindu): Come December, and Chennai springs to life with the sound of Carnatic music.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20363,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357\/revisions\/20363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}