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: an Indian lute with a long neck and a varying number of strings
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The initial idea was to have a sitar player do an Indian-type of beginning with tablas.
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Jim Clash, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Steve brought different instruments with him like the sitar and all these Portuguese things.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2025
Presenters will include sitar great and former San Diegan Anoushka Shankar, whose two nominations this year are the 10th and 11th of her career.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Indian sitar music played as women of all ages filed in and settled in a large circle.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Jim Clash, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Steve brought different instruments with him like the sitar and all these Portuguese things.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2025
Presenters will include sitar great and former San Diegan Anoushka Shankar, whose two nominations this year are the 10th and 11th of her career.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Indian sitar music played as women of all ages filed in and settled in a large circle.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Sitar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sitar. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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