Anoushka Shankar — does the masterful sitarist and daughter of the great Pandit Ravi Shankar really need an introduction? For ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Sitarmakers of Miraj, India, have been crafting musical instruments out of pumpkins for almost 200 years. They are known for making the tanpura, a string ...

Traditional Indian classical music and heavy metal are distinguished genres, marked by their perceivable difference to our ...

So, let's pack our bags as we travel around the globe to learn about musical instruments of the world. A sitar is a string instrument that comes from Northern India. It's quite a large instrument ...

In his Symphony Ravi Shankar explores this passion using the traditional instruments of a large Western orchestra. The sitar and orchestra play melodies based on a raga (a pattern or selection of ...