In Indian classical music traditions, string instruments or for that matter, all instruments are not placed as mere tools of ...

As you probably heard by now, the great sitar player Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. His music arrived in most American ears thanks to George Harrison and the Beatles, whose interest ...

Vadodara businessman Bharat Desai's 'Bharatar', the electronic sitar, revolutionizes music with features like tonal quality adjustments. Desai's interdisciplinary research ensures the survival of ...

Purbayan Chatterjee innovates Indian classical sitar music by blending traditional ragas with modern elements, collaborating with global artists, and utilizing cutting-edge technology. His approach ...

ENCINITASENCINITAS — Indian classical musician Kartik Seshadri compares the destruction of the prized sitar he played and toured with for 38 years to the pain of losing a limb. “It drives me to tears ...

A natural-born musician, who grew up in a family of musical instrument makers, 25-year-old Rishab Rikhiram Sharma is a sitar player and music composer, and someone whose sitar videos you are sure to ...

Almost anything can be a musical instrument. A horse’s jawbone? A couple of rocks, a stick, and some string? An armadillo shell? A box with a constantly buzzing antenna sticking out of it? Something ...

Sitar player Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at the age of 92. Brian Q. Silver, a sitar player with over 40 years of experience, talks about playing the unique instrument and how Shankar popularized the ...