{"id":8677,"date":"2010-01-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/18\/sculptor-creates-nadaswaram-in-granite\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T12:00:00","slug":"sculptor-creates-nadaswaram-in-granite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/18\/sculptor-creates-nadaswaram-in-granite\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptor Creates Nadaswaram in Granite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/8446541.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAMIL NADU, INDIA, January 18, 2010: Silpi sculptor Chinnakkannu used a single piece of hard black granite to make a nagaswaram, the classical musician instrument traditionally used in South Indian Temples as part of the worship. The artist used a single piece of hard black granite to make the instrument which is more than two feet in length and musicians say that they are amazed at how well it plays.<\/p>\n<p>Chinnakkannu told the BBC that he was inspired to make the instrument by his admiration of temple art and religious sculptures across Tamil Nadu. Hailed as one the world&#8217;s loudest non-brass acoustic instruments, the nadaswaram is traditionally made from a special variety of wood and has a range of two and a half octaves &#8211; similar to the flute.<\/p>\n<p>(see a photo at the source, above.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.bbc.co.uk TAMIL NADU, INDIA, January 18, 2010: Silpi sculptor Chinnakkannu used a single piece of hard black granite to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}