Musical instruments have always created curiosity, amazement and admiration among those artistes who invented, played and enjoyed their sounds. The ancient Greeks attributed their invention to gods or ...

Photo of Juan Moreno Moya’s portrait of Kalyan Mukherjea Despite the dominant rhetoric about the antiquity of Indian classical music, many instruments used in performance, not to mention some of the ...

Amjad Ali Khan is a superstar in his native India, but his chosen instrument would make a good crossword clue for many New Orleanians: Lute-like, 25-string instrument with a history that dates back ...

The sarod, a lute-like instrument widely used in folk music across Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, has nearly fallen silent in Pakistan. The stringed instrument has featured in several ...

Next to the sitar, the sarod is the most well-known Indian stringed instrument of classical northern Indian music. Sarod means “beautiful sound” or “melody” in Farsi, and is thought to have have ...

Mumbai, Jan. 14: The audience was agog. But Ustad Amjad Ali Khan had a shock waiting for them. He held up his sarod for all to see — the teakwood was cracked and the skin torn off at places. It had ...

The sarod is one instrument that may or may not have had an Indian origin (Late Vidushi Sharan Rani in her well researched book claims it was definitely an adaptation of an ancient Indian instrument; ...

Mukherjee, a sarod player, is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi’s prestigious Ustad Bismillah Khan Award, among numerous other awards Joydeep Mukherjee presented a mohanveena recital at the G20 ...