सहज शंख
Sahaj = effortless or easy: Shankh = Conch
Shankh or Super bass bansuris are really huge flutes – almost too huge for average human hands. Called Shankh because of their conch like deep reverberant sound. Any bansuri larger than B bass is usually called Shankh Bansuri. Incredibly hard to play because of the large spread of holes and the large amount of air required to sustain sound. To negotiate the large spread of holes, many Shankh flutes used to be made to have only 4 holes, each hand controlling two holes. While that would ease playing of the flute, it severely limited the range of the instrument.
Now applying my innovation of Hole-tunneling™, I have come up with Shankh bansuris that are about as easy to play as a medium sized bass flute like E bass, and call them Sahaj Shankh bansuri. Easy or effortless super bass bansuri The flute featured here is a G Sahaj Shankh. At about 47 inches long, and Sa at G3, it is a really huge flute but still quite easy to finger due to hole-tunneling ™. This one is one full swara lower than the most common Shankh bansuri with Sa at A. These, like all my other flutes, are made to order.
