It has some popularity with musicians playing heavy metal music, although the concept can also be seen in ancient instruments such as the sitar.

At the American Musicologists ' banquet, themes from Thoinot Arbeau's Orchésographie can be heard in the background, incongruously played on a Hammond organ and a sitar.

' Muhammed the char wallah walks around the camp all day, selling tea from his urn with his catchphrase “” chai garam chai .” We can also hear him sing the musical interruptions between the scenes, which are mostly popular World War II era hits, accompanied by a sitar.

Orientalism is also traceable in music that is considered to have effects of exoticism, including the japonisme in Claude Debussy's piano music all the way to the sitar being used in recordings by The Beatles.

The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Indian classical music, which is believed to have been derived from the ancient Indian instrument Veena and modified by a Mughal court musician to conform with the tastes of his Persian patrons and named after a Persian instrument called the setar ( meaning " three strings ").

During the time of Moghul rule Persian lutes were played at court and may have provided a basis of the sitar.

The sitar may have a secondary resonator, the tumbaa, near the top of its hollow neck.

This Pardah System of music may have been easily transformed into the design of mizrâb and zamzama in sitar, when played together creating a Pardah System of music, thus providing a proof of Amîr Khusrau ’ s invention of sitar.

Indian immigrants have brought many of their own styles of music and dance, along with instruments like the sitar and tabla.

Other instruments which have more include the sitar and sarod with 15 sympathetic strings, and the sarangi which has a total of 37 sympathetics.

Subsequent releases have seen the use of dumbek, dholak, duduk, cumbus, sitar, dilruba and violin, as well as guest vocals by Arabic and Carnatic classical singers.

They did not have a tanpura, sitar, or veena, let alone a house.

His unique style of sitar playing is considered to have completeness, emotion and depth.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ", ( Neil Sanders, James W. Buck, John Burden, Tony Randall ), arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney ; string section and harp on " She's Leaving Home ", arranged by Mike Leander and conducted by Martin ; harmonium, tabla, sitar, dilruba, eight violins and four cellos on " Within You, Without You ", arranged and conducted by Harrison and Martin ; clarinet trio on " When I'm Sixty Four ", as arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney ; saxophone sextet on " Good Morning, Good Morning ", arranged and conducted by Martin and Lennon ; and forty-piece orchestra ( strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion ) on " A Day in the Life ", arranged by Martin, Lennon and McCartney and conducted by Martin and McCartney

Though not technically a sitar, the electric sitar is a guitar with a special bridge, known as the " buzz bridge ", and sympathetic strings, to mimic the sitar.

In one or more of the more common tunings ( used by Ravi Shankar, among others, called " Kharaj Pancham " sitar ) the playable strings are strung in this fashion:

In a " Gandhar Pancham " ( Imdadkhani, school of Vilayat Khan ) sitar, the bass or kharaj strings are removed and are replaced by a fourth chikari which is tuned to Ga. By playing the chikari strings with this tuning, one produces a chord ( Sa, Sa, Pa, Ga or Sa Sa Ma Ga or Sa, Sa, Dha, Gha depending on the raga ).

In this group McLaughlin played a custom-made steel-string acoustic guitar made by Abe Wechter and the Gibson guitar company that featured two tiers of strings over the soundhole: a conventional six-string configuration and seven strings strung underneath at a forty-five degree angle-these were independently tuneable " sympathetic strings " much like those on a sitar or veena.

Such a construction is seen on the sitar, where arched frets attach at the edges of the fingerboard ; unfretted strings run below the frets, while fretted ones run above.

The body shape of the tambura somewhat resembles that of the sitar, but it has no frets – and the strings are played open.

The sarod is known for a deep, weighty, introspective sound, in contrast with the sweet, overtone-rich texture of the sitar, with sympathetic strings that give it a resonant, reverberant quality.

Most often, Browne played the guitar / mandolin instrument with bass strings, and Williamson the other, which also had 13 sympathetic strings designed to resonate like the Indian sitar.

The festival launched the careers of many who played there, making some of them into stars virtually overnight, including Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, Canned Heat, Otis Redding, Steve Miller and Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar.

Joi also developed a live act and put on a full live show-incorporating sitar, guitar, tablas, and vocals by Susheela Raman, performed at such events such as Tribal Gathering, Whirl-Y-Gig, World of Music, Arts and Dance, Big Chill, Wembley Conference Centre, Swaraj as well as others around Europe taking them as far afield as Bucharest, Rome, Madrid and Geneva.

Harrison met Shankar in London in 1966 and visited India for six weeks to study sitar under Shankar in Srinagar.

The sitar came in at take three and again as an overdub onto take six along with a tabla, bass and fuzz guitar.

George Harrison ( of the Beatles ) played the sitar on the song " Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown )" in 1965, which sparked interest from Shankar, who subsequently took Harrison as his apprentice.

The Beatles song " Norwegian Wood ", which first appeared on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul, was the first western pop song to actually incorporate the sitar ( played by lead guitarist George Harrison ).

For instance, in " The Betrayal ", in which part of the episode takes place in India, the theme is heard played on a sitar.

The band has issued a wide variety of instruments into their music that are not traditionally associated with use in rock music, including a djembe, sitar, didgeridoo, and bongos on many of their earlier tracks and during live performances, and with the use of a pipa given to the band by rock musician Steve Vai which is played by Einziger n the song " Aqueous Transmission ".

Shankar began to perform publicly on sitar in December 1939 and his debut performance was a jugalbandi ( duet ) with Ali Akbar Khan, who played the string instrument sarod.

The bulk of the beats were created by Shavo ( only one or two samples were used on the entire record ) who also played live instruments throughout, including bass and sitar.

* May 13-The Rolling Stones release " Paint It, Black, which becomes the first number one hit single in the US and UK to feature a sitar ( in this case played by Brian Jones ).

It is the first example of a rock band playing the sitar in one of their songs ; it was played by George Harrison.

Instruments played by Wood on his various albums included guitar, bass guitar, cello, flute, sitar, saxophones, clarinet, recorder, oboe, bassoon, drums, double bass and keyboards.

In the sitar design there are 12-13 mizrÉb, a typical form of plectrum made of steel wire played with a zamzama held in one hand that strikes against mizrâb in a pattern creating a system of music.

On February 20, 2011 the band played for the first time in Bangalore city in India along with sitar player Niladri Kumar.

The Sextet centered on Ellis and his mentor Harihar Rao, who played sitar and tabla, but also featured vibraphonist Emil Richards, drummer Steve Bohannon, bassists Chuck Domanico and Ray Neapolitan, and pianist Dave Mackay.

This originally included folk music played with dhantal, tabla, sitar, harmonium and dholak, later including tassa drums.

This originally included folk music played with dhantal, tabla, sitar, harmonium and dholak, later including tassa drums.

Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became known in the western world through the work of Ravi Shankar beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s after The Kinks ' top 10 single " See My Friends " featured a low tuned drone guitar which was widely mistaken to be the instrument.

The second style was a merging of saxophonist John Coltrane's free-jazz atonalities, which hinted at the droning of the sitar – a style of playing, first heard on The Byrds ' 1966 single " Eight Miles High ", which was influential in psychedelic rock.

Thomas achieved mainstream success again in 1968, with the single " Hooked on a Feeling ", which featured the sound of an electric sitar, first released on the album On My Way ( Scepter Records ).

Manzer has also made many acoustic guitars for Metheny, including a mini guitar, an acoustic sitar guitar, and also the baritone guitar, which Metheny used for the recording of One Quiet Night.

The lowest string is purposefully laid lower at the nut of the instrument, so that it buzzes, creating a characteristic timbre known as sawari ( somewhat reminiscent of the " buzzing " of a sitar, which is called jivari ).

The vocal quality of sarangi is in a quite separate category from, for instance, the so-called gayaki-ang of sitar which attempts to imitate the nuances of khyal while overall conforming to the structures and usually keeping to the gat compositions of instrumental music.

The veena, a string instrument, was traditionally regarded as the most important, but few play it today and it has largely been superseded by its cousins the sitar and the sarod, both of which owe their origin to Persian influences.

" Join the Gang " was a rare excursion into contemporary youth culture, an acerbic observation of peer pressure and drug use, which included sitar in its instrumentation as well as a musical quotation of The Spencer Davis Group's recent hit " Gimme Some Lovin '.

With Susan Jacks on vocals and Terry Jacks on rhythm guitar, along with musicians Craig McCaw ( guitar / sitar ) and Satwant Singh ( tablas / drums ), the group recorded their first album, from which came their best known song " Which Way You Goin ' Billy?