Table of harmonics for veena?

[sudharani]

Where can I find veena's table of harmonics?

[uday_shankar]

You can't find it because we don't have a tradition of either tuning or using harmonics in any way in Carnatic music.

What exactly are you looking for ? The locations of the points at various distances to gently place a finger (thereby generating a node) to generate different harmonics (at least upto the seventh after which it gets a little difficult) is the same for any plucked string whether it be a vina or sonometer in the physics lab.

So guitar harmonic tables are applicable to vina too. However, unlike the guitar harmonic table you cannot assign any absolute approximations (like C or A#, etc...) for any of the harmonics on any string because in our music the open strings can be tuned to anything that the musician fancies on a given day. Still for your sake, if you take it that the vina is tuned to 3 kattais, then the guitar harmonic table corresponding to the E string and the B string are applicable to the sArani and the panchama strings respectively.

So here's the link to the guitar table of harmonics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Table ... monics.jpg

[raguanu]

You can't find it because we don't have a tradition of either tuning or using harmonics in any way in Carnatic music.

Few months back, there was a lecture-demonstration in Secunderabad government music college by the principal and Veena exponent Sri. Duddu Seetharamiah. At the end of the lec-dem he performed a small recital where he employed, quite frequently, both natural and artificial harmonics. He even bent and oscilated many of the harmonics just as how we bend notes in accordance with its gamakam.

[update]Ganesh-Kumaresh's violin play uses quite some instances of harmonics, mostly to touch some really high Sa or so.[/update]

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Thanks for the link to guitar harmonics chart. As you mentioned, it's possible to translate the chart to carnatic terms and use it for veena/violin etc.