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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 ").
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Raga rock is a term used to describe rock or pop music with a heavy Indian influence, either in its construction, its timbre, or its use of instrumentation, such as the sitar and tabla.
For instance, in " The Betrayal ", in which part of the episode takes place in India, the theme is heard played on 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.
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.
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 ".
However, there is no physical evidence for the sitar until the time of the collapse of the Mughal Empire.
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.
The gayaki style sitar is mostly of seasoned toon wood, with very few or no carved decorations.
The other type of sitar, the instrumental style, is most often made of seasoned toon wood, but sometimes made of ( Burma ) teak.
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 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 ).
Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920 ), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar.
She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sue Jones.
This technique ( commonly called ' bending ') is often used by electric guitarists of all genres and is a very important part of sitar playing.
However, with the exception of instruments like the sitar, where extensive pulling of the string is possible, much less influence on the intonation is possible than on unfretted instruments.
Vinaya Chandra Maudgalya ( GM's then principal ), Shri Vinod Kumar and Shri Madhup Mudgal ( present principal of GM ) and Mr Prashant Patasar is the son of well known Trinidadian sitar artiste, Pandit Mangal Patasar.
It is the first example of a rock band playing the sitar in one of their songs ; it was played by George Harrison.
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 ).
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Surbahar (; ), ( literally: " Spring Melody " in Persian ), sometimes known as bass sitar, is a plucked string instrument used in the Hindustani classical music of North India.
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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.
Shortly after, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones used a sitar in " Paint It, Black " and a brief fad began for using the instrument in pop songs.
Therefore instrument builders look for old Burma teak that was used in old colonial style villas as whole trunk columns for their special sitar constructions.
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 special feature of this translation is Amîr Khusrau ’ s description of a Pardah System, without mentioning the invention of sitar as an instrument.
Along with the sitar, it is the most popular and prominent instrument in Hindustani ( northern Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani ) classical 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.
Besides the guitar, he also plays a berimbau, a Brazilian one-string instrument ( cordophone family ), a sitar and sometimes percussion on stage and studio recordings.
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.
Harrison was captivated by the sound of the instrument ; he soon developed a profound interested in Indian music, culture and spirituality, and sparked a trend by taking sitar lessons from Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, whom Harrison continued to regard as the " best musician on the planet " long after the 1960s and who, coincidentally, had also recorded for The Beatles ' label, EMI.
It was the first time a Western pop song had used a sitar in its arrangement, and for many Western listeners it was undoubtedly the first time they ever heard the instrument.
Donovan had been given a sitar by George Harrison and had lent the instrument to MacLeod who played it on many of their songs.
Released in July 1968, Music from Big Pink was partly responsible for Harrison's return to his first instrument, the guitar, after he'd spent two years attempting to master the more complex Indian sitar.
However, the song does not actually feature the sound of the sitar, despite The Byrds having appeared brandishing the instrument at a contemporary press conference held to promote the single.
For the Indian instrument, see sitar.
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Hendrix owned a Coral electric sitar that later wound up in the possession of Peter Frampton, who used it on tour during David Bowie's 1987 world tour.
A sitar, much used on early records of the genre.
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.
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:
Harrison became interested in Indian classical music, bought a sitar and used it to record the song " Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown )".
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.
Instruments typically used in Hindustani music include the sitar, sarod, surbahar, veena, tanpura, bansuri, shehnai, sarangi, violin, santoor, pakhavaj and tabla.
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.
Tamburas come in different sizes and pitches: larger " males ", smaller " females " for vocalists, and a yet smaller version is used for accompanying sitar or sarod, called tamburi or tanpuri.
It provides a valuable hardwood used for furniture, ornamental panelling, shipbuilding, and musical instruments like the sitar, rudra veena, and drums.
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