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.

However, there is no physical evidence for the sitar until the time of the collapse of the Mughal Empire.

Amongst all sitar styles there are student styles, beginner models, semi-pro styles, pro-models, master models, and so on.

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.

As a pointed counterpoint to the verse echoes of ancient Vedantic philosophy (" wall of illusion " " When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there ") a sawal-jawab ( musical dialogue ) begins in 5 / 4 time between first the dilruba and Harrison's sitar, then between the full Western string section and Harrison's sitar, this tellingly resolving into a melody in unison and together stating the tihai that closes the middle segment.

In addition to these, there are rooms for academic activities such as the Technical Drawing Room, the Art Room, the Maths Laboratory, the Environmental Science room and rooms for Bharat Natyam, Kathak and folk dance, the sitar room, rooms for Indian and Western Music and a modern Computer Centre.

Ustad Allauddin Khan was passing on not only playing technique but the musical knowledge and approach of the Maihar gharana ( school ); yet there was a definite trend in his teaching to infuse the sitar and sarod with the been-baj aesthetic of the Rudra veena, surbahar and sursringar – long, elaborate alap ( unaccompanied improvisation ) built on intricate meend work ( bending of the note ).

For this reason guitars are distantly related to modern instruments from these regions, including the tanbur, the setar, and the sitar.

Some common instruments in the string family are guitar, sitar, rabab, electric bass, violin, viola, cello, double bass, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki, and harp.

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 ".

Three of these ( or four on a Ghandar-pancham sitar or " Vilayat Khan " style aka Etawa gharana ), called the chikaari, simply provide a drone: the rest are used to play the melody, though the first string ( baajtaar ) is most used.

There are two popular modern styles of sitar offered in a variety of sub-styles and decorative patterns.

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 ).

The violin, the harp, the sitar, the banjo and the lute are accompanied by electric bass and drums.

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

Tamburi are tuned to the higher octave and are the preferred instruments for accompanying solo performances by string-playing artists, as the lighter, more transparent sound does not drown out the lower register of a sitar, sarod, or sarangi.

Indian musical instruments, such as the tanpura, sitar and rudra veena, are constructed from dried calabash gourds, using special cultivars that were originally imported from Africa and Madagascar.

For example, the sitar features three or four resonating drone strings, and Indian notes ( sargam ) are practiced to a drone.

There are four different Bols ( strokes ) used when playing sitar: Da, Ra, Dir and Dra.

Its primary ones are sitar and tabla, and almost all artists use an electronic or acoustic drum kit and / or synthesizer.

Reynolds plays the guitar, piano, sitar, drums, violin, bass, keyboards, ethnic percussive instruments, solo djembe, harp, uses drum machines for special effects, and sings, although his performances are primarily instrumental rock music.

In addition, he continued to learn to play other instruments, including the sitar, sarod, the mandello, keytar, tubular bells and other " exotic " instruments that are not commonly seen in Western rock artists of the rock and roll musicians of the time.

' 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.

Plucking is used as a method of playing on instruments such as the banjo, ukulele, guitar, harp, lute, mandolin, oud, sitar, and either by a finger or thumb, or by some type of plectrum.

It is a plectrum made by hand from a continuous strand of iron used to strike the strings of the sitar.

The Twilights, formed in Adelaide, also made the trip to London, recording a series of minor hits, absorbing the psychedelic scene, to return home to produce covers of Beatles ' songs, complete with sitar, and the concept album Once upon a Twilight ( 1968 ).

The other type of sitar, the instrumental style, is most often made of seasoned toon wood, but sometimes made of ( Burma ) teak.

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.

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.

In October 1965 Harrison made pop history when he played a sitar on the Beatles ' recording of the John Lennon song " Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown )", included their 1965 LP Rubber Soul.

A versatile musician, Jones also plays guitar, koto, lap steel guitars, autoharp, violin, ukulele, sitar, cello, continuum and the three over-dubbed recorder parts heard on Led Zeppelin's " Stairway to Heaven ".

The band also expanded its instrumental range, with Segel playing mandolin and sitar in addition to violin, and Molla playing pedal steel guitar on some tracks.

* Mark Stewart – dobro ( track 7, 9, ), cello ( track 2 ), electric guitar ( track 2 ), sitar ( tracks 7 ), banjo ( track 10 ), pedal steel gong ( track 9 ), tromba doo ( track 11 )

There were three models of Variax acoustic modeling guitars ; the 300 Nylon String and the 300 Steel String which allow varying the body size and mic placement in the electronic model, and the more expensive cedar ( later spruce )- topped 700 ( available only with steel strings ) that had alternate tunings " built-in " and was able to emulate over a dozen rare and desirable acoustic instruments, including a real Indian sitar, rather than the Coral electric sitar modeled in the electric Variaxes.

* Béla Fleck-banjo ( tracks 1, 5-7, 11, 12, 14 ), banjos ( track 2 ), low-tuned Czech electric banjo ( track 3 ), electric banjos ( track 15 ), synths ( tracks 3, 12 ), electric banjo with simultaneous synth ( track 4 ), nylon and steel string banjos ( track 9 ), gut string Stelling banjo ( track 10 ), Nechville sitar banjo ( track 13 ), guitars ( track 6 ), synth guitar ( track 14 ), Paradis stereo guitar with VG8 ( track 2, 7, 8 ), gut string guitar ( track 13 ), mandolin ( tracks 7, 8, 11 ), mandolins ( track 9 ), theremin ( track 14 )

* Béla Fleck – Gibson-style 75 banjo ( track 4, 5, 9, 15 ), Gibson-style 18 acoustic banjo ( track 2 ), gut string banjo ( track 11 ), synth banjo ( track 13 ), Deering Crossfire electric banjo ( tracks 2, 12 ), electric banjo with triggered synth ( track 6 ), Paradis stereo guitar with VG8 ( track 3 ), Nechville electric sitar banjo ( track 14 ), National steel guitar ( tracks 7, 16 )

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.

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

A sitar can have 21, 22, or 23 strings, among them six or seven played strings which run over the frets: the Gandhaar-pancham sitar ( used by Vilayat Khan and his disciples ) has six playable strings, whereas the Kharaj-pancham sitar, used in the Maihar gharana, to which Ravi Shankar belongs, and other gharanas such as Bishnupur, has seven.

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.

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

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 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.

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.