 This rose to a clamour as the concert started and the organisers had finally to keep the entrance doors open to pacify everyone.The concert, featuring as sidemen Govindaswamy Pillai on the violin, Azhagunambi Pillai on the mridanga and Dakshinamurthy Pillai on the kanjira, was an impressive effort.T.Chowdiah, was a violinist who invented the seven-stringed violin and became a very popular exponent in it.