Hindustani Music
Sarod
Sarod is a stringed musical instrument as popular as sitar, used mainly in Hindustani Music. It is a fretless instrument but can produce continuous slides between noyes known as Meend. In Hindustani Music, Meend refers to a glide from one note to another. The word Sarod means more or les “Beautiful Sound” or “Melody” in Persian. The design of the instrument depends on the school (Gharana) playing it. Conventionally there are three main types having 17 to 25-strings. Four to five main strings of the lute-like instrument are used for playing the melody. One or two are drone strings. Two of them are chikari strings and nine to eleven sympathetic strings. The strings of Sarod are either made of steel or phosphor bronze and are plucked with a triangular Plectrum made of ...
Instrumental Music – Sitar with Tabla
Here is young Anoushka Shankar performing with Ustad Zakir Hussain. Anoushka Shankar is a British-Indian Sitar artist and composer and daughter of Pandit Ravi Shankar. Ustad Zakir Hussain does not need any introduction, who is an Indian Tabala player, composer, percussionist, music producer and a film actor. Late Ustad Allah Rakha is his father. Both Anoushka and Zakir Hussain are well known in their fields and have performed together and individually on various stages inside and outside India. They have also collaborated with many great Indian and Foreign artists and received various awards and accolades. Let us listen to Anoushka Shankar and Ustad Zakir Hussain performing live, rendering the Raga Tilak Shyam. Picture and Video used for illustration only – Credit: Lakshay Garg/Unite...