Definition of sitar
: an Indian lute with a long neck and a varying number of strings
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She had just been accepted into a sitar class, a notable achievement for a student of her age.
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The Beatles pulled it off, incorporating everything from British music-hall entertainment to Indian sitar into their kaleidoscopic soundscapes.
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Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., S.F. www.sfsymphony.org Samarth Nagarkar, Josh Feinberg Vocal; sitar; Ehren Hanson, and Satish Tare, tabla.
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Less impressive than his two earlier, flamboyantly symphonic sitar concertos, Shankar's third didn't make much of an impression with Orpheus.
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The tones and notes he was playing reminded Nair of the sitar.
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Glass composed it in 1990 alongside Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar, whom Glass met in India in 1965.
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South Asian Classical Music Society: Ustad Shahid Parvez and Hindole Majumdar perform traditional Indian works on the sitar and tabla.
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Jayanta Banerjee on sitar, vocalist Vaibhav Mankad and tabla player Satyaprakash Mishra performed sitting up on a platform stage left, while pianist Carmen Staaf, bassist Tabari Lake and drummer Allison Miller accompanied at stage right.
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Origin and Etymology of sitar
Hindi & Urdu sitār, from Persian, a three-stringed lute, from sih three + tār string, thread
SITAR Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of sitar for English Language Learners
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: a musical instrument from India that is like a guitar and that has a long neck and a round body
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