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• n  a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings

• George started noodling on a sitar--if indeed one can noodle on a sitar--and asking questions.
• Anoushka Shankar Rise With a Grammy nomination in 2003, sitar prodigy Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi, has already made her mark on Indian classical music.
• The notes played on the silver-fretted sitar are vintage Ravi Shankar, but the 23-year-old daughter of India's most famous musical export is doing what her father never would have .

News & Articles

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• Bamboo and brass in concert at India Center Sunday
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Indian classical music dates back more than 3,500 years. Even if you have no clear notion of what the music sounds like, you probably can conjure images of the sitar, a guitar-like instrument with many more strings and a gourd-shaped...
  June 28, 2013 - The Charleston Gazette

Quotes

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• Noel Gallagher in MyParkMag
  The guitar and the sitar are obviously related - even linguistically. The oud moves west from Persia to become the lute; it moves east to become the pipa. And a European hears an erhu and says it's purely Chinese, a Chinese violin, but in Chinese... Yo-Yo Ma http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-Yo_Ma&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNErUW0-hneR-2ACdJoVDk8GFSKNwA International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/08/america/NA-GEN-US-Ma-Silk-Road.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFAAAHNSS2Eh1RRCywuaU0WYrkfvw Apr 8, 2007 90441 120555 sitar Speaking on 'Gold and Silver and Sunshine - The Making of 'Dig Out Your Soul' documentary, Noel said: You know the sitar is not a real one? It's a toy electric one, a plastic one. They're shaped like a sitar, and they've got a speaker on the front....
• Michael York in Hindu
  I think director James Ivory had cast me because he felt I suited the role of an Englishman who goes to India to learn the sitar,added York who got the role just two years after he started acting on screen.