Since the release of her eponymous debut in 1998, Anoushka Shankar has been internationally renowned as an alchemist of Indian music. Blending classical sitar with modern flourishes, the multiple ...

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A traditional Indian instrument used by George Harrison to record a Beatles song has sold for over £53,000. Harrison bought the 4ft long sitar from a small Oxford Street shop named Indiacraft between ...

Love for music has made this electronics engineer modify the long-necked Indian classical music instrument - sitar. VADODARA: Love for music has made this electronics engineer modify the long-necked ...

Pune: The handmade sitar created in Miraj in Sangli district of Maharashtra is now travelling to the US, Germany and the UK for musicians based there. The instrument was made popular by Pandit Ravi ...

NEW DELHI — Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an ...

Wood and metal have pretty much been the materials of choice for craftsmen making acoustic instruments for many years, but the rise of 3D printing in recent times has brought us guitars, violins, ...

PESHAWAR: Noted Chitrali sitar player Zainullah Jan has asked the provincial culture department to preserve traditional musical instruments to enrich live music as the art of making musical tools is ...

A new, ambient sound has arrived and it stars Santa Barbara–raised songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Maxton Hunter and his journey learning the sitar. The tracks “Dhara” and “Jaya” were released ...

PESHAWAR: Clad in a traditional dress and a thick khakhi shawl, Zainullah Khan Umerzai clutches his Chitrali sitar with pride. He is touted as one of the finest Chitrali sitar players who are ...

Nov 4, 2023 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Add to Calendar 04-11-2023 19:00 04-11-2023 20:00 America/Toronto Spirit of Tradition– An Evening of Sitar and Tabla Sitarist and composer, Mohamed Assani, is known for ...