Etawah / Imdadkhani Gharana

No one will dispute that today Sitar is one of the most versatile and popular instruments. Over the period of its evolution, it has become a very mature instrument and is capable of expressing the raga form completely without any lose even of the finest shade of the emotional expression. Various stages through which a rag is presented on the Sitar like Alap, Jod, Gat, Toda-s, Tan-s and Jhala leave no stage of development of the raga untreated. It has now become a most mature, self—...