Sekar tells New Indian Express that he’s still ... including both 7- and 14-string varieties. Each instrument takes five to six months to craft out of a solid block of wood.

When my father was a young boy in India nearly 70 years ago, he began tinkering with a veena, the classical Indian stringed instrument, that he found lying neglected at his home. He taught himself ...

Harrison played it on “Norwegian Wood” in 1965 after first seeing the complex Indian stringed instrument on the set of the Beatles movie “Help!” — though, as the story goes, David Crosby ...

The ancient popular instrument Yazh disappeared from India long ago. This stringed instrument which resembles a bow was considered to be the sweetest of instruments. It is described in some of the ...

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 ...

For generations, Altaf Mullah and his family, residents of Miraj in Goa, have been in the business of tuning the strings and twisting the pegs of Indian string instruments such as the tanpura ...

Here we list some famous instruments which have disappeared or on the verge of extinction. Rudra veena is considered as the mother of all stringed instruments. It reigned supreme two centuries ago but ...