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bansuri

bansuri is a stopped side-blown flute with fingerholes.

Also recorded as venu; nadi; tunava; murali; vamshi; bansi.

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Identity

What the record establishes about bansuri.

An Indian musician playing a bansuri (flute). Gouache painting by an Indian artist. is dated [between 1800 and 1899?] and held by Wellcome Collection. bansuri is classified as a stopped side-blown flute with fingerholes or bamboo flute. Wellcome Collection records 1 object associated with this heading. bansuri is associated with India.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

6 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Analysis of Class 3rd Art Textbook Bansuri-I from NPE-2020 Perspective, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CREATIVE RESEARCH THOUGHTS, 2024. Exploring and interpreting the spectral structure of the North Indian flute (Bansuri), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2024. Exploring the acoustic color signature paterns of Bansuri, the traditional Indian bamboo flute using principles of the Helmholtz generator and geometric signal processing techniques, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2025. Communities and conservation: natural resource management in South and Central Asia. Edited by Ashish Kothari, Neema Pathak, R. V. Anuradha and Bansuri Taneja, Sage, New Delhi, 1998, 508 pp, ISBN 0 7619 92790, pound 29.99, Community Development Journal, 2002. Book Reviews : ASHISH KOTHARI, NEEMA PATHAK, R.V ANURADHA and BANSURI TANEJA, Eds, Communities and Conservation: Natural Resource Management in South and Central Asia. New Delhi: Sage Publi cations, 1998. 505 pp. Rs 495 (hb); Rs 325 (pb), Science, Technology and Society, 2000. Tradition and Innovation in the Bānsurī Performance Style of Pannalal Ghosh, Analytical Approaches to World Music, 2011.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (1027336469). Those registers additionally record the forms Solor, Baṃsarī, Bā̃surī, Husor, Bā̃srī, Halur, Bānsrī and Bānsurī.

Digitised editions and texts

1 digitised item associated with this heading is catalogued by DataCite (Zenodo).

The Bansuri in Kathak: Melodic Dialogue between Dance and Flute in Expressing Rasa and Bhava (2025) — DataCite (Zenodo).

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 35 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)) and 12 deposited research records (DataCite Commons). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 7 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 7 means 7 genuinely separate publishers of record. 6 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1800An Indian musician playing a bansuri (flute). Gouache painting by an Indian artist. is dated [between 1800 and 1899?] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  2. 1800An Indian musician playing a bansuri (flute). Gouache painting by an Indian artist. (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 2025The Bansuri in Kathak: Melodic Dialogue between Dance and Flute in Expressing Rasa and Bhava digitised by DataCite (Zenodo).

Connections

Each connection was recorded deliberately, with the basis for it kept on the internal record.

Broader subject

  • bamboo fluteTerminology

    Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Analysis of Class 3rd Art Textbook Bansuri-I from NPE-2020 Perspective, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CREATIVE RESEARCH THOUGHTS, 2024

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Consult the source
  2. 2.

    Book Reviews : ASHISH KOTHARI, NEEMA PATHAK, R.V ANURADHA and BANSURI TANEJA, Eds, Communities and Conservation: Natural Resource Management in South and Central Asia. New Delhi: Sage Publi cations, 1998. 505 pp. Rs 495 (hb); Rs 325 (pb), Science, Technology and Society, 2000

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Consult the source
  3. 3.

    Communities and conservation: natural resource management in South and Central Asia. Edited by Ashish Kothari, Neema Pathak, R. V. Anuradha and Bansuri Taneja, Sage, New Delhi, 1998, 508 pp, ISBN 0 7619 92790, pound 29.99, Community Development Journal, 2002

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Consult the source
  4. 4.

    DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “bansuri”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Exploring and interpreting the spectral structure of the North Indian flute (Bansuri), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2024

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Consult the source
  6. 6.

    Exploring the acoustic color signature paterns of Bansuri, the traditional Indian bamboo flute using principles of the Helmholtz generator and geometric signal processing techniques, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2025

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

    Consult the source
  7. 7.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 3 articles naming bansuri.

    open access index · Unverified

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  8. 8.

    Gemeinsame Normdatei 1027336469, Bansuri.

    authority file · Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

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  9. 9.

    Internet Archive, 2 digitised items catalogued under bansuri as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  10. 10.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 1 work naming bansuri.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  11. 11.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q960389: bansuri

    authority record · Unverified · Wikidata

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