The Connections Between Music And Visible Art
This sitar with 7 melody and thirteen sympathetic strings was made in 1997 by Murari Adhikari, son of Nityananda Adhikari, an early 20th-century innovator of sitar building. Murari continued to incorporate his father’s improvements that included elaborate engraving and carving, rounded frets, a concave neck, adjustments in bridge design, and adjustments that produce a good tone from excessive to low. Established in 1910 and growing out of an older company, Damodar and Sons, based in 1882, the Calcutta agency of Kanailal and Brother prospered from the Nineteen Twenties by way of the 1960s.
Electronic equipment enabled some composers to create …