Sitar
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The sitar 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 fo
Sitar, late 19th Century
19th-century sitar with 4 strings
19th-century sitar. This instrument does not have sympathetic strings.
Anatomy of a sitar
Ravi Shankar
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Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known exponent of Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced ma
Sitar
…of Abbasid or Safavid origin. Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became popularly known in the wider world through the works of Ravi Shankar, beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The advent of psychedelic culture during the mid-to-late 1960s set a trend for the use of the sitar in…
Shankar performing at Woodstock in 1969
Concert flier, 1967
Shankar performing with Anoushka Shankar in 2007
George Harrison and Ravi Shankar in 1967