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

The sitar remains the most prominent of the Eastern instruments made popular by Western ... the sitar will get you there as quickly as a fuzzed-out 12-string guitar, tape echo, and cavernous ...

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 ...

But what about otherstring instruments? A guitar works by either pluckingthe strings like this… or strumming them like this. Lovely. Just like this sitar. The sitar which is popularin Indian ...

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 ...

Director: [[mgkatz, Max Katz]] About: We explore North Indian classical music through a hands-on study of its premiere stringed instrument, the sitar. Membership: Contact the director for information ...

That was the debut concert of the collective, known as String Theory ... which featured the instrument in their songs, unlike the others. “I started playing sitar because the music touched ...