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The tanpura (Sanskrit: तंबूरा, romanized: Taṃbūrā; also referred to as tambura, tanpuri, tamboura, or tanpoura) is a long-necked, plucked, four-stringed instrument originating in the Indian subcontinent, found in various forms in Indian music. [1] Visually, the tanpura resembles a simplified sitar or similar lute-like instrument ...
The sitar (English: / ˈ s ɪ t ɑːr / or / s ɪ ˈ t ɑːr /; IAST: sitāra) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form in 19th-century India.
The javari of a sitar will be made according to the wishes of the player, either 'open',('khula') with a bright sounding javari-effect, or 'closed' ('band') with a relatively more plain tone, or something in between ('ghol'). The choice depends on the preference of the sitar-player and on the adapted playing style.
[1] [7] Until the early twentieth century, the names chambar and jumbush were applied to instruments in northern Iraq. [1] In India the name was applied to the tanpura (tambura), a fretless drone lute. [1] Tanbur traveled through Al-Hirah to the Arabian Peninsula and in the early Islam period went to the European countries.
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Nodu Mullick was a musician and instrument-maker from Calcutta, India. [1] Pandit Ravi Shankar commissioned multiple sitars from him, and they were Shankar's primary performance instrument starting in 1961. [2] Mullick accompanied Shankar on tanpura on his first western concert tour in Europe in 1956, and also on his American tour in 1961.
The company built a small food processing plant to the rear of the restaurant that year to produce its frozen meals. [3] In 1997, the restaurant was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At the time, it was the only tiki restaurant in Ohio, and the only remaining supper club in Columbus. [3]
Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...