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A wide range of Digital Indian musical instruments are invented, designed and manufactured by the only ISO 9001:2008 certified, award-winning company for Electronic Indian musical Instruments in the world. Starting as a tiny unit in a garage in 1979, Radel’s sophisticated factory today has state-of-the-art facilities for design, manufacture as well as quality assurance. It is situated in the prestigious Electronics City close to Bangalore. The company is professionally managed and employs highly trained manpower.

Radel Products Timeline

1971

Electronic Sruti Box Dhruva (Transistorised), Electric Veena The first electronic Transistorised sruti box and portable electric veena invented by Raj Narayan were demonstrated by him at the annual conference of the Karnataka Gana Kala Parishat in 1971 at Bangalore.

1978

First Electronic Talometer The first electronic taala display instrument Talometer invented by Raj Narayan was demonstrated at the annual conference of Karnataka Gana Kala Parishat in 1978 at Bangalore.

1979

First Electronic Tambura Saarang The first ever electronic tambura Saarang invented by Raj Narayan was demonstrated by him at the annual conference of the Madras Music Academy in 1979.

1986

Electronic Veena The improved version of the portable veena, the electronic veena with built-in amplispeaker being performed by Radhika Rajnarayan during a duet performance of flute (Rajnarayan) and veena, at the Sur Singar Samsad Kal ke Kalakar festival in Mumbai, for which both of them were awarded the ‘Sur Mani’ title.

1987

First Electronic Tabla Taalmala. Raj Narayan demonstrating his invention – electronic tabla Taalmala at the Gana Kala Parishat’s annual conference in 1987 by using it as accompaniment for a flute recital.

1993

Electronic Lehera Instrument, Sunadamala Pt Ravi Shankar launched Raj Narayan’s new creation – electronic lehra Sunadamala at Bangalore in 1993.

1995

Compact Sruti Box CD Radel achieved a jump in production volumes along with miniaturisation, by designing moulded ABS plastic cabinets for its products, starting with the Radel Compact Dhruva Shruti Box.

1998

Compact Sunadamala The technology was then applied to launch a compact version of Radel’s lehra Sunadamala.

1998

Compact Talometer The Compact Radel Talometer in the ABS plastic cabinet.

1999

Sampled sound tanpura Radel achieved a quantum jump in technology by adopting sampled sound technology to produce the actual sound of the tambura in the Saarang Magic tambura – Sheer Magic in a tiny box!

2001

Sampled sound stereo digital tabla Sampled sound along with stereo was introduced in the Radel Taalmala, thus achieving an amazingly realistic sound!

2002

Digital Veena – First synthesizer in Indian musical Instrument form The first electronic Indian musical instrument to be awarded a patent is the digital veena, Radel digiveena, demonstrated at the Madras Music Academy in 2002.

2002

Sunadavinodini Electronic veena with moveable frets and updated technology The modern electronic veena Radel Sunadavinodini with added features like movable frets and built-in tambura was launched in 2002.

2004

First Indian MIDI compatible musical instrument Taalmala Digi 100 The first ever MIDI compatible digital Indian musical instrument, Radel’s Taalmala digi-100 was launched by renowned musician Dr N Rajam in Mumbai, 2004.

2005

Swaravali Music trainer The electronic teaching companion – the Radel Swaravali music trainer was launched in 2005.

2006

Swaroopini Electronic Swarmandal Radel’s innovation, electronic swarmandal Swaroopini was launched in 2006.