Long before sitars and tablas ruled the stage, India resonated with the haunting melodies of the Ravanahatha and the deep ...

The sitar remains the most prominent of the Eastern instruments made popular by Western ... Also, Indian classical and folk music has many characteristics, but one of the elements most inspiring ...

Also up for auction is Harrison’s 1965 sitar. The instrument sound featured on “Norwegian Wood” marked the beginning of what music historians would later call “The Great Sitar Explosion ...

He later used the instrument to record the song, Norwegian Wood, in October 1965, launching 'the Great Sitar Explosion' in rock music. Harrison took the sitar to Barbados on his and Pattie Boyd's ...

So, let's pack our bags as we travel around the globe to learn about musical instruments of the world. A sitar is a string instrument that comes from Northern India. It's quite a large instrument ...

Ahead of her Richardson show, the sitar virtuoso and composer talks about being drawn to electronic dance music, her multinational childhood and what ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Sitarmakers of Miraj, India, have been crafting musical instruments out of pumpkins for almost 200 years. They are known for making the tanpura, a string ...

Her environment certainly hastened her passion. For many, Ravi Shankar, who died in 2012, was a spiritual leader as much as a ...

The music path started early for Shankar ... from a teacher of how the complicated string instrument operated, she began learning to tame the sitar under the tutelage of her father.

Once she got a handle on the fundamentals from a teacher of how the complicated string instrument operated ... from classical sitar music to trance tunes to fusion to collaborations with artists ...