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- Indian classical music has essentially three kinds of instruments: A drone, usually provided by repeated notes on a plucked string instrument, the tambura, or electronically from a sruti box, which sounds almost the same. The notes are typically 5-octave-octave-1, in terms of the notes of the rag (mode). A drum or set of drums that keeps time.
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Indian classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent. It is generally described using terms like Marg Sangeet and Shastriya Sangeet. It has two major traditions: the North Indian classical music known as Hindustani and the South Indian expression known as Carnatic.
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- Sitar. The Sitar is probably the most famous traditional Indian stringed instrument in the West. This is thanks to famous sitar players like Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar as well as bands like The Doors, the Rolling Stones, and The Beatles, who all used it in some of their music in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Tabla. The Tabla is the most popular musical instrument in North India and consists of a pair of wooden hand drums with goatskin heads stretched taut.
- Tanpura (Tambura) The Tanpura, or Tambura, is a four-stringed instrument with a long neck that is plucked to create a classic droning sound in Hindustani and Carnatic music systems.
- Mridangam. The Mridangam is a double-sided drum that provides the rhythm in Carnatic music and is also played in drum ensembles. The drumheads are made of goatskin and are tightened with leather thongs on the sides of the instrument.
A tabla [nb 1] is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent. Since the 18th century, it has been the principal percussion instrument in Hindustani classical music, [3] where it may be played solo, as an accompaniment with other instruments and vocals, or as a part of larger ensembles.
