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Lute's kin
Answer for the clue "Lute's kin ", 5 letters:
sitar
Alternative clues for the word sitar
- Prominent instrument in raga music
- Instrument on the Beatles' "Within You Without You"
- Instrument that's usually played cross-legged
- Instrument sometimes made of teak
- Indian lute is brought back by sailor
- Ravi Shankar's instrument
- It notably has two bridges
- Stringed musical instrument from India
- Shankar's pear-shaped instrument
Word definitions for sitar in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The sitar ( or ; , ) is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Hindustani music and Indian classical music . The instrument is believed to have been derived from the veena , an ancient Indian instrument, which was modified by a Mughal court musician ...
Usage examples of sitar.
It was the DepCom who suggested Ries make use of the sitar that had been his.
The sitar, Ries remembered now, that had been damaged and then forgotten in a native tavern.
A Meeting by the River, Jesse swayed against the kitchen counter, her thoughts flowing mellifluently with the sensuous conversation between guitar, sitar, tabla and dumbek.
LP of a sitar player named Ustad Vilayat Khan, with his brother - a younger brother, to judge from the picture - on the veena, and an unnamed tabla player.
Indian instruments like sitars and tablas thrown into the acoustic and electric mix for good measure.
With inductance surfaces like a theremin, with frets like a guitar, down one side were short drones as on a sitar.
The radio was announcing a sale on ground round steak and then some old-time rock came on, lush and mystical, cockney voices wailing through a prayer wheel of electric sitars, and we roared past Boston in a low cloud of crematory smoke.
Sitar Ananta calls with a timbre surprisingly deep for his slender frame.