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Bhatkhande Bandish editor

A mobile friendly editor to write Indian Classical (Hindustani) music notations.

Named after VN Bhatkhande, the scholar who documented thousands of classical Bandishes and developed a notation system (now named after him).


Features

Taal aware editing

Formats the notation according to Sam/Khaali/Bhaag of the selected Taal.

Taal aware editing

Multiple notes per beat (e.g dugun /tigun)

Click on the 1/2/3 buttons to enter a single note per beat or 2 (or 3) notes per beat

Multiple notes per beat

Show Svaras for the raga selected.

Constrains the keyboard to show Svaras in the selected Song or Raga

Note selection

Open source:

Support for multiple languages/scripts

Supports multiple languages (English and Devnagri at the moment)

Switch  languages easily

Lyrics assigned to each svara

Type in lyrics that are vertically aligned to each Svara. For each bhaag, Click on the gray box below the svaras and enter the lyrics separated by commas.

For example: Teentaal (4 beats in a Bhaag), "Pi,ya,bi,na" will align the 4 Bols to each svara in that Bhaag.

Bandish lyrics


Get started

There are multiple ways of getting started with the editor:

  1. You can use our Hosted version. This is the simplest way to use the editor.
  2. Host your own version (documentation TBD)

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