sitar

📅 Updated:2017-07-28

🕒 Created:2016-12-14

🆔 ID:14324

Description

The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Hindustani music and Indian classical music. It derives its distinctive timbre and resonance from sympathetic strings, bridge design, a long hollow neck and a gourd-shaped resonance chamber. In appearance, the sitar is similar to the tanpura, except that it has frets.