What Is Different About This Vaja?

[Singhstah]

How do you get your vaja to sound like this?

Absolutely amazing keertan btw.

[humkire]

I do some keertan through Guru Maharaj's kirpa so to answer your question when you buy a vaja you test its sounds. Some are suited with a high pitch for female voices others for a male voice. The vaja you are hearing in this clip has a male sounding deeper singular pitch and it is near to an organ or pipe organ in sound to be specific. When you buy a vaja, as you test out a few, look out for that sound, and you should isolate one, similar sounding.

A scale vaja (if you have one) normally has a setting resembling this voice(as you scale it downwards to your left not right). Sometimes a vaja has knobs at the bottom panel facing you which you can tweak too.

You will also notice in your hearing of the clip that the vaja keys are being played in a very sehaj/relaxed manner being held longer. This accentuates the deep organ sound and compliments it as a non intrusive background to the Gurbani being sung which is in the forefront. This changed with the new genre that was introduced by the late Ragi Rajinder Singh Singapore Vale in the post Bhai Gopal Singh era, and which has been the main influence of most present day ragis like Sarabjeet Singh Rangila, which works more keys faster to add more vaja content more prominently to keertan, a point which is a bone of contention within the traditional sampardayic parampara of keeetan maryada.

[chatanga]

put this effort and passion inot learning your Guru's instruments, rather than vaaje.

[humkire]

if Guru is, as Gurbani says... ''sarab kla bharpur dish jth ktha'', then Guru owns all and His power is in all things wherever you see.