| The only other essential instrument is the tanpura, whose open strings are plucked continuously all evening, providing an organ-like background. |
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| He told me that once he sits down for practice with the tanpura, he does not get up for four to five hours! |
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| He has talked of trying to de-stress himself while writing with tanpura strumming and raag alap. |
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| From the tanpura to the violin all those who chance to visit Dakshinachitra then, can touch, feel and try playing some of them. |
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| The dhindis, typically, comprise a kirthankar, who could be of either gender, carrying a tanpura. |
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| She also studied Sanskrit and learned to play the musical instruments the vina and tanpura. |
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| In this trio setting, Singh's amplified tablas are the main focus, punching out loudly over a thin-sounding sarangi and a tanpura drone. |
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| The ubiquitous drone is there, of course, now provided by the tanpura. |
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| She signalled to her maid to fetch the tanpura from the corner. |
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| He had just begun singing and was accompanied only by the tabla and his own tanpura. |
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| In Jonny Greenwood's Water the composer played with the band on one of two tanpura, a fretless lute. |
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| In 1958 Charles Groves commissioned him to write what became Dances Of India for sitar, tabla, tanpura, flute and symphony orchestra for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. |
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| Another binkar born in this khyal tradition, Bindumadhav Pathak used to play a bin, made in Miraj, the reputed centre for sitar and tanpura manufacture and whose tube was of bamboo. |
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| He will accompany himself on the Thai gong, Indian tanpura, drum, recorder and tubular bell. |
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| Tanpura facility in each scale to tune the instrument is available. |
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