Definition of sitar
: an Indian lute with a long neck and a varying number of strings
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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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And all Kerr needs to sing the praises of Klay is a little background music: a guitar, banjo, sitar or sousaphone will do.
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Meanwhile, Domino’s records for other labels didn’t reach the success his earlier Imperial albums had; styles had moved on, and even the Beatles were recording with sitars rather than boogie-woogie piano lines.
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Other influences include singer-songwriter M.I.A., Norah Jones, sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, and jazz trumpeters Miles Davis and Jon Hassell.
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Guitars will mix with a sitar, Pakistani flute, and nearly a dozen tabula (small drums similar in sound to bongos) for the performance.
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There’s the electric sitar, drawing on all the mystical associations that many Americans have with such an instrument.
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The sitar music was too loud, the Australians were chatting away.
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Origin and Etymology of sitar
Hindi & Urdu sitār, from Persian, a three-stringed lute, from sih three + tār string, thread
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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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