Sitar
(hindustani, string instrument)
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Sitar is the most popular stringed instrument of India
and has been in use for about 700 years. It is
fashioned from a seasoned gourd and teakwood and has
twenty mental frets with six or seven playing strings
and nineteen sympathetic strings below. It is played
with a plectrum worn on the finger. Sitar has a long
and complex heritage; its origin goes back to the
ancient Veena. In the 13th century, Amir Khusru, in
order to make the instrument more flexible, reversed
the order of the strings and made the frets moveable.
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Major artists in alphabetical order
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Ustad Shahid Parvez - Raag Deepchandi