Rajasthan Folk Music Information

Sitar is one of the most representative Indian national instrumental music. Sitar is a stringed instrument. When playing, press the strings with your left hand, put a metal plectrum on your right index finger, or wipe the strings with a bow. There are many kinds of sitar, mainly divided into North Indian sitar and South Indian sitar. Sitar Qin in North India is made of wood, about 1 m long, and its singing body is hemispherical, consisting of a gourd inlaid with thin boards. The neck of the piano is flat and wide, and there are 20 movable ring-shaped metal products on the fingerboard. There are usually seven strings. The South Indian Sitar is similar to the North Sitar, but the handle is slightly shorter and thinner, and 14 pieces are made of metal. Sitar is suitable for playing decorative sounds in three octaves. Ravi Shankar is the most famous Indian sitar player. He visited China on 1983. Rajasthan folk music is a famous folk music in Rajasthan (equivalent to a province) in northern India. Rajasthan has the only desert area in India, which is dry and short of water all the year round. Most men in Rajasthan go out to do business and join the army. Soldiers are brave and tenacious in the battle, so most of the folk songs and music here show their feelings of missing their relatives in their hometown and their brave and tenacious spirit. This piece of music shows such feelings.