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Veena Gayathri was born on 9th November 1959 to Smt. Kamala, a veteran veena vidushi, and Sri G. Aswathama, a popular film music director of Telugu cinema. When Veena Gayathri was a toddler, her father noticed a popular phenomenon in her when she used to stamp her feet on the floor and sway the anklet bells in tune with any rhythmic beat she happened to hear. Her father realized the prodigy in the child. She developed an unconscious attachment to Veena and started playing on it for hours together unobtrusively in the pooja room. But if there was any intrusion or disturbance during her veena Sadhana, she used to burst into tears and cry. Her father then started coaching her in mano dharma and her mother trained her in the intricacies of veena techniques. This is how Veena Gayathri blossomed into a veena artiste at the unimaginably tender age of 6. The earliest Veena was an instrument of the harp type whose type survives in the Burmese harp, whereas in the last centuries and nowadays, the word has tended to be applied to instruments of the lute type or even, recently, to certain kinds of guitars developed in India. The more popular sitar is believed to have been derived from a type of Veena which was modified by a Mughal court musician to conform with the tastes of his Persian patrons. A person who plays the Veena is called a vainika. Learn To Play Veena - Basic Lessons for Beginners - Veena Basic Exercises by E.Gaayatri. Subscribe To Our Gethanjali Learn Music And Arts Channel:@LearnMusicVideos