# Meend

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{{Short description|Technique in Hindustani music}}
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In [Hindustani music](/source/Hindustani_music), '''''meend''''' (Hindi: {{lang|hi|मींड}}, {{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|مینڈ}}}}) refers to a [glide](/source/glissando) from one note to another.<ref>[http://www.itcsra.org/alankar/meend/meend_index.html Introduction to Meend] at the [ITC Sangeet Research Academy](/source/ITC_Sangeet_Research_Academy).</ref> It is an essential performance practice, and is used often in vocal and instrumental music.  On the [veena](/source/veena), [sitar](/source/sitar), [sarangi](/source/sarangi) and other plucked or bowed stringed instruments, it is usually done by pushing the strings across the frets to vary their effective length and tension; compare [portamento](/source/portamento) and [finger vibrato](/source/finger_vibrato). This can be done on wind instruments like the [bansuri](/source/bansuri) by using the fingers to cover the holes in a manner that the changes between discrete pitches are imperceptible.  It is considered a sort of ''[alankar](/source/Ornament_(music))'', or ornament.

''Meend'' is an important part of any classical performance; however, it is a technique not possible on a [hand-held harmonium](/source/hand-held_harmonium) often used in musical concerts (or on the [santoor](/source/santoor)). For this reason, traditionalists singing [khyal](/source/khyal) prefer an accompaniment on an instrument such as a [sarangi](/source/sarangi) that can perform ''meend''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedic Dictionary of World Musical Instruments| date=August 2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j5oJXHBMBEwC&pg=PA273|accessdate=13 July 2013|publisher=Global Vision Pub House|pages=273–| isbn=978-81-87746-51-5 }}</ref>

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Category:Articulations (music)
Category:Ornamentation
Category:Hindustani music terminology

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