Handcrafted for Flute Maestro
Maestro with a Raagam Flute - More than a Pied Piper
Raagam Flutes is a name of trust and excellence, for a Flute Maestro.
Raagam Flutes are designed to meet the choice of every flute enthusiast.
Raagam Flutes are purely designed on the principal of physics, where Acoustic and Harmonics meets the Indian Classical Music.
Flautist who are always in search for purity finds the taste of rich flavor, where great sound with ample Jawari (Harmony and overtones), smooth bridge between lower and higher notes with amplitude balance are yours.
These flute are designed on distinct algorithm for every piece of bamboo. Every piece of bamboo is unique and no two bamboo could be same.
Flute are infused with the traditional 22 Shruties discovered by Bharat Muni's.
Tuned to get mingled with Tanpura - Drone.
Every Flute is manually checked for performance and stability.
We say with Pride, "Raagam Flute is our Brand"
Indeed, we are "Traditional Flute - Bansuri Makers for Indian Classical Music".
Legacy of Raagam Flutes
We at Raagam Flutes welcomes, every flutist to explore the Indian domain of bamboo flute (Bansuri, बाँसुरी) . We strive to maintain the traditional traits of Bansuri, by categorizing the flutes on the basis of Various Musical Scale, prominently on Equal Temperament and Shruti Scale (Traditional Indian Musical Scale). Such distinctive competency and proficiency of ours in making of bamboo flute marks us as possibly "only one in traditional Bansuri Makers for Indian Classical Music".
At Raagam, it means to calculate every aspects, after all it's all about the traditional knowledge which never faded and carried forward generation to next generation. Raagam Flutes started to sell flutes since 1998, whereas, prior to 1998, Pt. Madhu Soodan Kaushik used to provide Bansuri to his friend only.
We are proficient in making of Indigenous Handmade Professional Bamboo flutes for Classical Music (Shruti Based) as well as Light Music (Tempered Scale) for Live Concerts (Specific ATP) and Studio Recordings (at Standard 23° Celsius).
Flutes are manually tuned to Tanpura (Drone) by Artist proficient in playing Ragas for Classical Music and manually tuned to synthesizers (Piano tuned) for Light Music.
At Raagam special raga based flutes are also designed, considering Shruti, Swars, Murchhana and various Bhav like Shadaj Pancham and Shadaj Madhyam of desired raga in account.
Visitors are welcome to our website to know various traditional techniques and aspects of Indian classical Music besides buying flute only
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Madhu Soodan Kaushik Ji, welcomes his flautist brother and sisters, to share his experience, research, techniques & findings of Indian Classical Music while practicing Bansuri.
Kaushik's Journey towards making flute was not incidental, it started very late, Kaushik used to play the flute to accompany his Grand Mother Asharfi Devi in Daily Bhajans, and Kaushik never realised that his Grand Mother was training him, but after the demise of his Guru Ji - Grand Mother Smt. Asharfi Devi, felt that he was on a journey to learn traditional classical Music which came to halt, the halt was a motivation to learn more, after getting suggestions from well wishers, Kaushik joined an Indian classical music institute to get himself trained in traditional Indian Classical Music. He used to visit the library often where he came to know about various scholars and even after the tremendous work done by, Pt. Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Pt. Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, Pt. Omkarnath Thakur many more scientific scholars - like Pt. Feroz Framjee, Kaushik he also felt that indeed still Indian Classical Music lacks standardization.
Whereas, Kaushik blindly showed utmost regards to his teachers and even surrendered to the - get doomed command
"First Forget, whatever you know, we will start from scratch - the first command given by almost every Guru he met".
Why take an audition before selecting student, if erasing everything is the first procedure to learn music?
After exploring for few year, Kaushik decide to check himself and, Kaushik began to use voice recorders in his training session to practice them later but, one fateful day out of curiosity and to perform well Kaushik checked recordings of training sessions with tuners, and very next day Kaushik left the institution, and went back to the teachings of his Grand Mother, recalling was tough but not impossible.
Grand Mother Smt. Asharfi Devi, is the only guru of Pt. Madhu Soodan Kaushik. She passed the traditionally inherited knowledge to him.
Kaushik also studied Bhartiya literature, where concepts of Shruti, Swars, Murchhana and various Bhav like Shadaj Pancham and Shadaj Madhyam were clarified. Kaushik developed indigenous software to check and tune Bansuri, and so were passed without any bug to his flautist friends too.
It is appeal to all flautist, not to leave flute because of unavailability or expensiveness of bamboo flute. We will feel sad if you do so. Where ever you get the skill of playing flute, be it under Heritage system, GURU-SHISHYA, self learning method or through Interactive computer module method, keep practicing.