Traditional Indian Music And Instruments
                     
Traditional Indian Music And Instruments 



Traditional Indian 

Music And Instruments


What is Traditional Indian Music?

Indian traditional music has its own importance and 

this music is divided into two major parts:

1.Hindustani music of North India

2.Karnatak music of South India

The Indian music known for its traditional approach.


List of Traditional 

Indian Music 

Instruments


SITAR

Sitar is very old and popular music instruments of 

Indian Classical culture and North India. 

The Sitar is long neck with twenty frets.

Its very important for Indian Culture significance as

Its said that Our Goddess Sarasvati also plays Sitar.


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Sarod

Sarod has a small wooden body covered with skin and 

a fingerboard that is covered with steel. Sarod does 

not have a fret and has twenty-five strings of which 

fifteen are sympathetic strings. A metal gourd acts as a 

resonator. The strings are plucked with a triangular 

plectrum


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Sarangi

Sarangi is very old and traditional instrument of India. 

Sarangi is having hollow and made of wood with ivory 

inlays. 

Sarangi has forty strings and thirty seven are 

sympathetic. 

Famous Indian Sarangi players are Rehman Bakhs, 

Ghulam Sabir, Pt Ram Narayan, and Ustad Sultan 

Khan.


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Tabla

Tabla is very popular musical instrument and widely 

used in North India. 

The Tabla is played in pair and pair of two small 

drums.

The Tabla is made of wood and its head is made of 

some animal skin. 


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Flute

Flute is a also a very old traditional and simple 

instrument. Its a cylindrical tube of some bore in it.

It is made of a fine wood. Its very simple and it 

produces melody when used fingers on holes of flute 

to play.

India’s most famous flute players are Pt Pannalal
Ghosh and Pt Hari Prashad Chaurasia.


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Shehnai

Shehnai is a traditional instrument and from older days 

its played regularly in marriages, Temples and holy 

occasions.

The Shehnai consists of holes and to produce semi 

tones. Famous Shehnai players are Ustad Bismillah

Khan.


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Harmonium

The harmonium made of  wood .

Very popular musical instrument of India. The 

harmonium consists of  keyboard. The keyboard is 

played. Right hand is used to play keyboard and left 

hand is used to blow the fan. Harmonium is  a north 

Indian Style Instrument.


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