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.

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 ...

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 ...

Across the Americas there are many different Native cultures, each with unique musical traditions. The National Museum of the American Indian and other branches of the Smithsonian include music and ...

His father, Keshubhai Udhas, played the dilruba, a traditional Indian stringed instrument. His mother, Jeetuben Udhas, sang. And both of his brothers, Manhar and Nirmal, also became professional ...