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  2. Sitar - Wikipedia

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    The sitar (English: / ˈ s ɪ t ɑːr / or / s ɪ ˈ t ɑːr /; IAST: sitāra) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form in 19th-century India.

  3. Ravi Shankar - Wikipedia

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    Ravi Shankar (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈrobi ˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, [2] sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; [3] 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of Indian classical music (in Sitar) in the second half of the ...

  4. Arvind Parikh - Wikipedia

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    Arvind Parikh has been conducting Baithaks with top notch Classical Musicians covering vocalists and instrumentalists. Baithaks have a unique format and style where there is open but focused conversation with the artist to highlight, aspects of classical music such gharana, methodology of teaching, current context of Hindustani classical music.

  5. Sitar in popular music - Wikipedia

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    Ravi Shankar, a master of the instrument, was the first to make inroads into Western culture with the sitar.. While the sitar had earlier been used in jazz and Indian film music, it was from the 1960s onwards that various pop artists in the Western world began to experiment with incorporating the sitar, a classical Indian stringed instrument, within their compositions.

  6. Shahid Parvez - Wikipedia

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    A major Indian English-language newspaper says about him, "We are talking about Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan, considered Indian classical music personified and a synonym for the sitar. A leading exponent of the Etawah gharana, which produced legends like Imdad Khan, Enayat Khan and Vilayat Khan, Shahid Parvez is known for his rendition".

  7. List of Indian musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Musical instruments of the Indian subcontinent can be broadly classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs system into four categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) and idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments).

  8. In Concert 1972 - Wikipedia

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    In Concert 1972 is a double live album by sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and sarodiya Ali Akbar Khan, released in 1973 on Apple Records.It was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall, New York City, in October 1972, and is a noted example of the two Hindustani classical musicians' celebrated jugalbandi (duet) style of playing.

  9. Bhaskar Chandavarkar - Wikipedia

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    Bhaskar Chandavarkar (16 March 1936 – 26 July 2009) was an Indian sitar player, academic and film and theatre composer who worked with well-known directors of Indian cinema like Mrinal Sen, Girish Karnad, Aparna Sen, K. G. George and Amol Palekar in various languages including Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Oriya and was known for his blending of Indian classical and western ...