Hear The Sitar in concert. See The Sitar in action. Did you know. Sign up to receive regular updates. Other instruments in this genre. There are different sitar groups gharanas including the Kharaj-pancham seven strings , Gandhaar-pancham six strings , Bishnupur seven strings , and others.
The sitar became popular in modern music for a period in the s when it was used in music by The Rolling Stones, The Doors, and The Beatles.
One of the most famous sitar players Ravi Shankar was a follower of the Maihar gharana which used seven playable strings. The large bridge of the sitar is for the main strings and the small bridge is for the sympathetic strings.
The sitar is constructed of wood for the faceplate and the neck , a gourd for the resonating chamber or chambers, as some sitars have two resonating chambers , camel bone, ebony or deer horn for the bridges , and some sitars today are manufactured from synthetic materials to make them cheaper and faster to produce. The most popular sitars are the gayaki style sitars and the instrumental style sitars also known as the Ravi Shankar style - fully decorated. Sitar technique in Nibaddh forms.
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