STRING INSTRUMENTS
Sitar
The Sitar is the most popular Indian instrument .It has a captivating construction with long neck, cover made of tun or teak wood, the large resonating box is made of dried gourd. Metal strings made of steel (bass strings also of brass or bronze) run across two bridges made of camel bone/deer horn/ebony. The frets are movable by cords that are tied to the neck and are also made of steel. Sitar is used in a variety of genre. It is played in north Indian classical music (Hindustani Sangeet), film music, and western fusion music. The Institute has both the Vilayat Khan style sitar and Ravi Shankar style sitar. The Course structure over here concentrates both on the technique and melody (Gayaki ang).
Guitar
The Guitar is a musical instrument classified as a fretted string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings, usually having six. The sound is projected either acoustically, using a hollow wooden or plastic and wood box (for an acoustic guitar), or through electrical amplifier and a speaker (for an electric guitar).
PERCUSSION INTRUMENTS
Tabla
Tabla is the most popular Indian percussion Instrument. It has two drums, the larger one is called bayan and the smaller one is called dayan. The playing technique requires a differentiated fingering in connection with the complex composition of the skin membranes. The combination of the two drums produces an incredible fullness and details of different rhythm structures.
Drums
A drum kit—also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums—is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player with drumsticks held in both hands and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.
Dholak
The dholak is an Indian two-headed hand-drum. It may have traditional cotton rope lacing, screw-turnbuckle tensioning or both combined: in the first case steel rings are used for tuning or pegs are twisted inside the laces. The dholak is mainly a folk instrument, lacking the exact tuning and playing techniques of the tabla or the pakhawaj. The drum is pitched, depending on size, with an interval of perhaps a perfect fourth or perfect fifth between the two heads.
KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones. Synthesizers may either imitate instruments like piano, Hammond organ, flute, vocals; natural sounds like ocean waves, etc.; or generate new electronic timbres. They are often played with a musical keyboard, but they can be controlled via a variety of other input devices, including music sequencers, instrument controllers, fingerboards, guitar synthesizers, wind controllers, and electronic drums.
Harmonium
Harmonium, also called Reed Organ, free-reed keyboard instrument that produces sound when wind sent by hand-operated bellows through a pressure-equalizing air reservoir causes metal reeds screwed over slots in metal frames to vibrate through the frames with close tolerance. The harmonium is popular to the present day, and the harmonium remains an important instrument in many genres of Indian music.