I viewed a video of a performance by Ustad Shahid Parvez. He was playing one of India's iconic instruments, the sitar, a chordophone that the user sits to play. I am unsure whether the name sitar originated in Hindi or if it is a portmanteau of sit and guitar. Either way Hindustani Classical music is very different than western music. The sitar has a distinct sound that really doesn't have an equivalent in western culture. The performance I watched was monophonic, mainly because it was a single performer doing the show. It had a couple of shifts in speed that I found intriguing.
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