Sitar-making today: problems and prospects of the craft

Author: Rao, Suvarnalata

Keywords: Musical instruments--India
Sitar music
Sitar

Issue Date: 2000

Publisher: Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi

Description: This paper aims at reviewing in brief the craft of Sitar-making as it is practised today, and is based on the survey earlier mentioned. However, the focus is not on the actual process of instrument-making but on certain issues associated with it, which have a direct influence on the process. The raw materials used for making instruments were naturally substances that man could easily find around himself. The information presented in this paper is largely based on an exhaustive survey of these instrument-makers, in particular, makers of the Sitar. A part of the information comes from my collaboration with instrument-makers in Germany, Holland and Switzerland.

Source: Sangeet Natak Akademi

Type: Article

Received From: Sangeet Natak Akademi


DC Field Value
dc.contributor.author Rao, Suvarnalata
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-10T23:24:26Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-10T23:24:26Z
dc.date.issued 2000
dc.description.abstract This paper aims at reviewing in brief the craft of Sitar-making as it is practised today, and is based on the survey earlier mentioned. However, the focus is not on the actual process of instrument-making but on certain issues associated with it, which have a direct influence on the process. The raw materials used for making instruments were naturally substances that man could easily find around himself. The information presented in this paper is largely based on an exhaustive survey of these instrument-makers, in particular, makers of the Sitar. A part of the information comes from my collaboration with instrument-makers in Germany, Holland and Switzerland.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.extent 47-62p.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Musical instruments--India
Sitar music
Sitar
dc.type Article
dc.identifier.issuenumber 135-136
dc.format.medium text
DC Field Value
dc.contributor.author Rao, Suvarnalata
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-10T23:24:26Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-10T23:24:26Z
dc.date.issued 2000
dc.description.abstract This paper aims at reviewing in brief the craft of Sitar-making as it is practised today, and is based on the survey earlier mentioned. However, the focus is not on the actual process of instrument-making but on certain issues associated with it, which have a direct influence on the process. The raw materials used for making instruments were naturally substances that man could easily find around himself. The information presented in this paper is largely based on an exhaustive survey of these instrument-makers, in particular, makers of the Sitar. A part of the information comes from my collaboration with instrument-makers in Germany, Holland and Switzerland.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.extent 47-62p.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Musical instruments--India
Sitar music
Sitar
dc.type Article
dc.identifier.issuenumber 135-136
dc.format.medium text