GK
INDIAN CULTURE
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Bansuri and Sarangi
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Veena and Tambura
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Veena and Piano
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Bansuri and Veena
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Detailed explanation-1: -The musical instrument sitar is a combination of two other musical instruments – the veena and the piano. The sitar is used to play emotional music. The sitar is made of teakwood and season gourd, and features six to seven playing strings, twenty metal frets, and nineteen sympathetic strings.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to most historians, he developed the sitar from the setar, an Iranian instrument of Abbasid or Safavid origin. Another view supported by a minority of scholars is that Khusrau Khan developed it from Veena.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sitar, veena and guitar are stringed instruments.
Detailed explanation-4: -The mridangam is the primary rhythmic instrument used in Carnatic music. It is a very ancient double-sided drum whose body is usually a hollowed piece of wood and the two apertures are covered with a goat skin leather, the larger aperture produces a bass sound and the smaller one a treble sound.