The skill with which he played the traditional Indian stringed instrument inspired several pop and rock bands in the 1960s to incorporate the sitar, most notably the Beatles with its songs ...

With string instruments for beginners available in both Indian and western instruments, you have sufficient choices to pick the apt instrument to learn as per your likings. If you want to buy a ...

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.

a virtuoso of the Indian string instrument sarod, and Salar Nader, an Afghan-American tabla player, at Brandeis University Saturday night. Sakhi fled Kabul with his family in 1992, when he was 14 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...