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Includes information on tunings, pictures, and links.
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Sitar Sound  Sound a page about sitars Welcome to my page all about sitars. I decided to build this site cause I've always found sitars to have a really groovy sound to them and I've always enjoyed listening to them. I'm also...
http://www.geocities.com/sitar68/

Includes links, artists, book recommendations, streaming audio, and a brief description about the Indian sitar.
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Chandra and Davids Sitar Site The Indian Lute  Sitar is perhaps the most well known of the Indian instruments. Artists such as Ravi Shankar have popularized this instrument around the world. Sitar is a long necked instrument with an interesting construction. It has a varying number of strings...
http://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/sitar.html

Includes information on how to repair, tune, and maintain sitars, and replace tarbs (strings).
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FAQ on Sitar and other Indian instruments  I have been importing and selling Indian instruments many questions have come to me from customers. I have used some of these questions as the basis for this FAQ and hope that this will help others answer their questions. Indian...
http://www.buckinghammusic.com/sitar/sittut/faq.html

Lessons, general information and sitar music files.
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Sorry, The Sitar page will NOT be returning any time soon.  T be returning any time soon. Sorry for the inconvenience Sitarzan sitarzan AT yahoo dot com (Sorry if you can't figure that out I'm sick of spyders programmed for spammers...
http://www.mikestrickland.net/sitar/

Sitarist and teacher, living in Ohio. Biography, recordings, concerts, reviews, and photos.
http://www.ameritech.net/users/sundhi/index.htm

Brief description and drawings of the sitar.
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6IndianMusic sitar  The most popular instrument in North India today it has a long neck, twenty metal frets, and six to seven main strings with thirteen sympathetic strings running below the neck. The lower end of the neck has a gourd which...
http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M345/Kno...ge_Webs/7Indian_MusicY/sitar.htm

Tutorial for beginners. General care, tuning, playing, maintenance, and reference list.
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Sitar an on-line Sitar tutorial for beginners  This is intended for people who like the idea of playing Sitar, but who haven't had much experience with the instrument before. This is also intended to be the beginning of a living document so other items will be added...
http://www.buckinghammusic.com/sitar/sittut/btut.html