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Instrument on the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood"
Answer for the clue "Instrument on the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" ", 5 letters:
sitar
Alternative clues for the word sitar
Word definitions for sitar in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, from Hindi sitar , from Persian sitar "three-stringed," from si "three" (Old Persian thri- ; see three ) + tar "string" (see tenet ).
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.