As part of India & Pakistans Golden Jubilee celebrations, Pandit Ravi Shankar, accompanied by his daughter Anoushka Shankar, perform live for the BBC at The Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Did You Know that Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones also used a sitar in Paint It Black? The Sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Hindustani music and Indian classical music. The instrument is believed to have been derived from the veena, an ancient Indian instrument, which was modified by a Mughal court musician to conform with the tastes of his Persian patrons and named after a Persian instrument called the Setar (meaning three strings)
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:04:20 +0000
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