His passion for Indian instruments led him to start an instrument company called Uru, which is now selling these harps all ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Another book project in progress, “Sitar Business: The Life of Musical Instrument Manufacture in North India,” illuminates the cultural world of the commercial instrument trade in India today, shining ...

Rishab Rikhiram Sharma's virtuosity with the sitar has made him popular on social media. Excerpts from the 26-year-old's ...