Long before sitars and tablas ruled the stage, India resonated with the haunting melodies of the Ravanahatha and the deep ...

A traditional Indian instrument used by George Harrison to record a Beatles song has sold for over £53,000. Harrison bought the 4ft long sitar from a small Oxford Street shop named Indiacraft ...

Her environment certainly hastened her passion. For many, Ravi Shankar, who died in 2012, was a spiritual leader as much as a musician. Anouska Shankar describes the musicians who would stay at the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Sitarmakers of Miraj, India, have been crafting musical instruments out of pumpkins for almost 200 years. They are known for making the tanpura, a string ...

So, let's pack our bags as we travel around the globe to learn about musical instruments of the world. A sitar is a string instrument that comes from Northern India. It's quite a large instrument ...

To the casual observer, Anoushka Shankar is the poster child of the sitar, the classical Indian instrument made famous by her late father, Ravi Shankar. Yet what makes her music so distinct is the ...