#Violin instrumental music hindi songs professional

She may not be really playing the guitar, but sheвЂ™s not making an outright hash of it the way Dev Anand did in Yeh raat yeh chaandni phir kahaan-or, even worse, Biswajit in Laakhon hain yahaan dilwaale.Д®dited to add: Blog reader Sadanand Warrier informs me that the guitar in Tadbeer se bigdi hui is actually an acoustic guitar.Дў. So Geeta Bali, playing the vamp in Baazi, strums her guitar and sings a wonderful ghazal about taking oneвЂ™s fate into oneвЂ™s own hands. A guitarist was to be found in a nightclub, not a drawing room.ДЄnd, of course, no well-brought-up young lady played the guitar. Guitars, if Hindi cinema was to be believed, were not instruments one learned to play if one was вЂrespectableвЂ™: they were purely for social entertainment, and of the kind the well-bred would sniff at. There arenвЂ™t, as I thought at first, those many songs in Hindi cinema featuring guitars-especially not in the 50s and 60s (the 70s, with Rishi Kapoor and Taariq in Karz, Hum Kisise Kam Nahin, Yaadon ki Baaraat or Khel Khel Mein, etc, had its fair share of guitars to be seen). Mostly with six strings, the nylon-stringed вЂclassical guitarвЂ™ having the sound projected acoustically while the steel-stringed вЂelectric guitarвЂ™ does so electrically. There are, Wikipedia tells me (and my chest swells with pride to be able to say I knew this!) several types of guitars. Tadbeer se bidgi hui taqdeer bana le ( Baazi, 1951): A guitar is one of the most recognizable-even to total music ignoramuses like me-string instruments there is. And, to make it a bit less of a walk in the park for myself, no two songs feature the same instrument.

ItвЂ™s now a post on ten of my favourite songs, from pre-70s Hindi films that IвЂ™ve seen, which feature a string instrument. Then I went and checked on Youtube-and discovered that several of the songs IвЂ™d remembered as featuring a guitar actually featured a different string instrument: a mandolin, for example (in Tum bin jaaoon kahaan), or some even more unusual and exotic instruments. I tried by listing, off the cuff, all the songs I could remember as having a guitar-playing actor or actress.

#Violin instrumental music hindi songs professional

Songs where itвЂ™s not an orchestra ( Ted Lyons and His Cubs, anyone? Or The Monkees?), but a hero or heroine, not a professional musician, being the one вЂplayingвЂ™ an instrument? Guitars, I thought, would be a good place to start. After IвЂ™d done my piano song posts, I began to think of other musical instruments that appear in the picturisation of songs.