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# What is a mohan veena?

 Updated 19 October 2026

 The mohan veena is a form of **[Indian slide guitar](/instrument/indian-slide-guitar)** created by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, a disciple of Ravi Shankar, who added drone and sympathetic strings to a guitar. It carries about 19 to 21 strings: three or four melody strings, four or five chikari and 12 sympathetic strings tuned from the side of the neck, with a gourd behind the neck. Sources disagree on the guitar he started from.



 

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