Gottuvadhyam

The gotuvadyam is a 20 or 21-string fretless lute-style veena in Carnatic music from around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, named by Sakha Rama Rao from Tiruvidaimarudur, who was responsible for bringing it back to the concert scene.

This article is about the modern Indian lute. For the 7-string Indian arched harp, see Ancient veena.

Chitraveena
N. Ravikiran (center) playing the navachitravina.
String instrument
Other namesgotuvadyam, chitravina, chitra veena, chitraveena
Classification
  • String instruments
Related instruments
  • Vichitra veena
  • Sagar Veena
  • Surbahar
  • Rudra veena
  • Saraswati veena
  • Sarod
  • Sursingar
  • Tambura

It is also known as chitravina (Sanskrit: चित्रवीणा), chitra veena, chitraveena, chitra vina, hanumad vina and mahanataka vina.

Today it is played mainly in South India, though its origins can be traced back to Bharata's Natya Shastra (200 BCE-200 CE), where it is mentioned as a seven string fretless instrument. Sarangadeva (1210–47) also made a similar reference to the chitravina in his work, Sangita Ratnakara.

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