Her headmistress played a crucial role by giving her a role in a musical play during school, later insisting that she should appear for the government technical examination in music, conducted in Madras. Her early gurus remain unknown by name and Pattammal was grateful that they sought her out and taught her what they knew. She gave her first public concert without ever having sung with a violin and a mridangam. Once, when an exam demanded varnam singing, she had to obtain the notation by her own means and transform the text into music by recalling the raga as sung in the concerts she had heard. Without a regular teacher in the early stages, she never has the chance to learn the initial swara exercises. As a result of this, Pattammal desperately notated songs in concerts, and took down key phrases of ragas rare oand intricate. As a Brahmin woman, she could not undergo gurukula training, the norm in those times. More recent and ground-breaking performers include Damal Krishnaswamy Pattammal (1919-2009).
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