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These grace notes (acciaccatura) are often referred to as sparsh-swars. Kan-swars or sparsh-swars can be executed vocally and on instruments in three ways:
# using a swift short glide (meend or ghaseet),
# as a Sparsh (technique of playing a note on a plucked stringed instrument, the movement of notes is ascending) and
# as a Krintan (the opposite of a Sparsh, movement of notes is descending).In a book on sitar compositions, Kan has been defined as 'fast deflection

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