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  2. Tanpura - Wikipedia

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    The tanpura (Sanskrit: तंबूरा, romanized: Taṃbūrā; also referred to as tambura, tanpuri, tamboura, or tanpoura) is a long-necked, plucked, four-stringed instrument originating in the Indian subcontinent, found in various forms in Indian music. [1] Visually, the tanpura resembles a simplified sitar or similar lute-like instrument ...

  3. Hindustani classical music - Wikipedia

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    As with movable do solfege, the notes are heard relative to an arbitrary tonic that varies from performance to performance, rather than to fixed frequencies, as on a xylophone. The fine intonational differences between different instances of the same swara are called srutis. The three primary registers of Indian classical music are mandra ...

  4. List of Indian musical instruments - Wikipedia

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  5. Indian classical music - Wikipedia

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    Indian classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent. [1] It is generally described using terms like Shastriya Sangeet and Marg Sangeet. [2] [3] It has two major traditions: the North Indian classical music known as Hindustani and the South Indian expression known as Carnatic. [4]

  6. Tanbur - Wikipedia

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    [3] The Punjabi tanburag is a long-neck lute with a big bowl, and has three metal strings, called tanburag [tanboorag] or dhambura, but also called damburo, or kamach(i). [3] The Indian Tanpura (tanpura, tamboura or taanpura or tanipurani) is found in different forms and in many places even as electronic tanpura.

  7. Sitar - Wikipedia

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    Masid Khan added two more strings to the sitar. [18] The modern seven string sitar was created by Allauddin Khan. [19] Sympathetic strings on sitar were first added by Ustad Imdad Khan. [20] The earliest compositional style specifically for the sitar emerged in the mid-eighteenth century, attributed to Firoz Khan, who was either the son or ...

  8. Sarod - Wikipedia

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    [3] Alternatively, the shahrud may have given its name to the sarod. [4] The Persian word šāh-rūd is made up of šāh (shah or king) and rūd (string). [5] Many scholars of Indian classical music believe that the sarod is a combination of the ancient chitravina, the medieval Indian rabab and modern sursingar. [citation needed]

  9. History of lute-family instruments - Wikipedia

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    Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...