How to pronounce “sita” in English

Indian sitar in particular uh open to me but uh Indian music in that respect is

Her name is Sita Chettri.

And her name is Sita Chettri.

Even the sitar and the sarod was played very percussive if you listen to a recording 70 years old.

He's truly a sitar hero, he plays the distortion sitar.

tuning of a sitar at the beginning of a concert no matter how stoned they are in San

I can play around with the sitar.

meal in an Indian restaurant by plucking the sitar for maybe half an hour they'll do that in the city where I live um and

But I was really obsessed to meet Sita Chettri, because I wanted to see her.

Shri Ram Jay Ram Jay Jay Ram, and Sita Ram Sita Ram.

While it's played with fingertips-- cello, sitar-- but if I play sarod with fingertips,

male #2: Shankar Madadevan: You know a friend of mine is already a sitar hero in India

the concert uh Robbie Shan comes out and he starts to tune his sitar and he tunes and he worries about things and tunes

named pandin parate in in hiad and I've been playing the sitar for 40 years I mean I can actually get myself a free

And he took it to extremes, like he learned sitar from Ravi Shankar, and so on and so forth.

on flute, Sultan Khan on sarangi, Rais Khan on sitar.

In the olden days, you probably sat with and sitar, and harmonium, and so on.

understandable uh you know and and what I did was then I started myself to study the sitar I studied the sitar with a man

uh what I discovered was I mean it was beautiful to have the entire repertoire of the sitar which I I do love the North

So that human life, especially in these art forms, like playing a sitar or a tabla and playing it

The keyboard is a amazing instrument that people can produce sound of flute, sound of drum, and sitar, and so many-- violins and cello.

For instance, one of the pieces that I did before my symphony orchestra in London was with the sitar player, Niladri Kumar.

He grew up in Baltimore, studied at Juilliard, moved to Europe, where he trained with Nadia Boulanger and closely worked with sitar composer Ravi Shankar.

He did a big concert in Bombay and one in Delhi, and he had to prove to people he could still play the sitar.

So let me describe this place to you. It's a beautiful lake surrounded by the Himalayan Mountains where legend has it that Ravi Shankar gave George Harrison his first sitar lesson.

And so then in season two, it began to change right from the get go and we started adding in some Indian sitar and some tabla.