Radel
Radel Electronics Pvt. Ltd. is the pioneer in the field of digital electronic musical instruments for Indian music.
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.
The electronic musical instruments manufactured by Radel Electronics Pvt. Ltd have been invented by its founder G Raj Narayan, an engineer-cum-musician of Bangalore. These products therefore cater to the very precise and artistic needs of a musician. Their excellent tonal quality has earned them the approval of leading musicians. They are suitable for use in concerts as well as practice sessions.
The instruments are extremely simple to operate. Highly sophisticated technology used in their design, continuous research and development besides vigorous tests during manufacture have resulted in the production of sound almost identical to that of the conventional instruments that they simulate.
Radel’s exhaustive list of clientele include eminent musicians like Dr. L Subramaniam, Pandit Jasraj, Dr. S. Balachander, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Amjad Ali Khan & Shubha Mudgal, to name a few.
Radel’s dedicated team – the design, production, sales & marketing and administration departments synchronize their efforts to produce the world-class musical instruments that are admired everywhere.
Awards
Karanataka Kalashree (2001), Govt of India National Award for R&D (2009)
Founder
G Raj Narayan – Founder & Managing Director hails from a family of musicians and is himself a well known senior flautist of Karnataka State, India.
He has been broadcasting classical Carnatic (South Indian) music over the All India Radio and Doordarshan TV since 1969. He is graded ‘A’ by A.I.R. He won the A.I.R music competition for flute in 1968. Other awards include the “Sur Mani” title from the Sur Singar Samsad of Bombay and the “Ananya Award” for the best musician at the annual conference of the Karnataka Gana Kala Parishat in 1997 for his achievements as a musician. He also received the “Young Electronics Engineer” award from IMM, New Delhi in 1987 and the Karnataka State Government “Rajyotsava Award” in 1996, for his achievements in the field of electronic musical instruments. Having learnt to perform both the Carnatic and the Hindustani styles of music, he is fully aware of the intricacies involved in classical Indian music.
As a musician, he invented these electronic musical instruments out of necessity to facilitate his own practice sessions. Therefore, he is continuously aware of the needs faced by a musician and uses his own practical observations as well as feedback from users to further improve existing products.
Raj Narayan holds a Masters degree in electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. After spending ten years as a designer of aerospace systems, he utilised his knowledge and skills acquired in a high-tech field to set up his own industry to design and manufacture the electronic musical instruments that are used widely all over the world. His designs therefore have reliability, serviceability, miniaturisation, optimal power utilization and ergonomics inherent in them.
