The sarod is a stringed instrument, used in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent. Along with the sitar, it is among the most popular and prominent instruments. It is known for a deep, weighty, introspective sound, in contrast with the sweet, overtone-rich texture of the sitar, with sympathetic strings that give it a resonant, reverberant quality. A fretless instrument, it can produce the continuous slides between notes known as meend (glissandi), which are important in Indian music

This instrument can be heard in Sister Awake, Inanna, The Badger / {{total_slide_count}} string instruments Sarod {{current_slide_index}} Esraj is a North Indian bowed bowl-necked lute that was probably developed in the 19th century from the mayuri vina, whose broad body ends in a peacock's head. The esraj has four to five playing strings and over a dozen resonating strings. In the classical music of northern India, it is preferably used for the khyal style and is also used to accompany other song genres, particularly in Bengal. / {{total_slide_count}} string instruments Esraj {{current_slide_index}} The Oud, or Ud, is a short-necked lute from the Middle East. As a precursor to the European lute, the instrument, which was probably originally native to Persia, came to Europe with the Arab expansion in the 7th to 9th centuries and via the Moors in Andalusia and returning crusaders.

The Arabic lute is considered the most flexible and dynamic of the Middle Eastern stringed instruments. Today it is also a common instrument in folk music.

This instrument can be heard in the acoustic version of Sister Awake. / {{total_slide_count}} string instruments Oud {{current_slide_index}} Tanpura, also known as Tambura, is a plucked long-necked lute that is used in Indian music as an accompanying drone instrument.

Like the sitar, the tanpura produces a sound rich in overtones. The body and neck are similar to the sitar, although the tanpura has no frets. It is usually carved from the hard wood of the breadfruit tree. The tanpura usually has four or five metal strings. These are plucked unplucked

This instrument can be heard in Sister Awake and Inanna. / {{total_slide_count}} string instruments Tanpura {{current_slide_index}} Saz (Turkish, Persian ساز) refers to a group of long-necked lutes that are widespread from the Balkans to Afghanistan and are played in the music of Turkey, Kurdish, Iranian, Armenian, Azerbaijani and Afghan music, among others. The main representative of these plucked instruments in Turkey is the medium-sized bağlama. The bağlama is the most commonly played traditional accompaniment instrument of Turkish bards, who are called Aşık (“the lover”) in Anatolia and the Caucasus. / {{total_slide_count}} string instruments Saz {{current_slide_index}} String Instruments Tar {{current_slide_index}} The tar is a plucked long-necked lute. The tar has been found in the Persian-speaking world since the 19th century, where it developed from the rabāb (related to the rubab, which is still played in Afghanistan today) in the mid-18th century at the earliest. In Iranian classical music in particular, the tar has become one of the most important musical instruments since the Kajar dynasty, both as a solo instrument and in ensembles.

Canbe heard on the Alhambra version of The River. / {{total_slide_count}} percussions Santur {{current_slide_index}} The santur (also santūr, santour, santoor) s a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origins.
This instrument was traded and traveled to different parts of the Middle East. Musicians modified the original design over the centuries, yielding a wide array of musical scales and tunings. The original santur was likely made with wood and stone and strung with goat intestines.

The Santur can be herad on the Intro of Walk With Me and the Alhambra Version of The River. / {{total_slide_count}} percussions Hurdy Gurdy {{current_slide_index}} The hurdy-gurdy or wheel lyre is a mechanized string instrument from the class of lute instruments known since the Middle Ages, in which the strings are struck by a built-in wheel that is turned by means of a crank. The vibrating length of one or more melody strings is shortened mechanically via keys in order to change the pitch. Although the instrument is widely used in various countries in different designs, the French version is probably the best known.

The Hurdy Gurdy can be heard on The Badger. / {{total_slide_count}} The Gibson Style U was a harp guitar produced by the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company from 1902 until 1925. The Style U was produced in several different configurations over the years, with the most common variation having ten sub-bass strings. Jeff Martin received the guitar as a gift from his label boss after signing a contract with EMI.

This instrument can be heard on Shadows On The Mountainside. / {{total_slide_count}} string instruments Harp
Guitar {{current_slide_index}} Keyboard instrument Harmonium {{current_slide_index}} The Harmonium, like the piano and the organ, is a keyed instrument; but whereas on the piano metallic cords and on the organ pipes emit the sounds, those of the harmonium are produced by a current of air passing through metallic reeds, thus set vibrating.

The harmonium flourished towards the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, when it was used as a kind of home organ and domestic instrument by the middle classes,.

The Harmonium can be heard in Sister Awake. / {{total_slide_count}} Darbuka, also known as darbukka, darbouka, derbouka or darabukka, is a single-headed cup drum from the Middle East and Arab North Africa.

Traditionally, the body is made of clay and covered with an animal skin. For reasons of durability, modern instruments are made of metal and covered with a plastic skin..

This instrument can be heard in Sister Awake and Turn The Lamp Down Low. / {{total_slide_count}} Percussions Darabuka {{current_slide_index}} percussions Tabla {{current_slide_index}} The tabla is a percussion instrument and belongs to the group of skin instruments. It has its origins in India and probably developed in the 18th century from smaller Indian kettle drums, the “duggi”. The tabla set consists of 2 drums. The smaller of the two is called the dayan and has a cylindrical wooden body. The larger drum, the bayan, has a metal body in the shape of a kettle. Its music is mainly used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in folk and religious music.

The tabla can be heard on Inanna, and Silence. / {{total_slide_count}} The dombak is the chief percussion instrument of Persian classical music. It is a one-headed drum that is carved of a single piece of wood, and is open on the bottom. Across the larger, upper part of the body is streched a sheepskin membrane, that is glued into place. Thus, the instrument cannot be tuned; the performer prepares it for a piece by warming the membrane over a heater.

This instrument can be heard in Silence, The Bazaar or Inanna (acoustic version). / {{total_slide_count}} Percussions Dombak {{current_slide_index}} percussions Djembe {{current_slide_index}} The djembé (often also called djembe) is a single-headed beaker drum from West Africa, the body of which consists of a hollowed-out tree trunk.

Djembes are only struck with the bare hands and are characterized by an extensive sound spectrum, the deep basses of which the djembé owes to the special, cup-shaped form of its body, which acts as a Helmholtz resonator when playing the djembé.

Djembes are used both as solo and ensemble instruments.

This instrument can be heard in Sister Awake, Turn The Lamp Down Low, Silence / {{total_slide_count}} Hurdy Gurdy All Instruments Djembe Saz Tar Santur Harmonium Tabla Harp Guitar Darabuka Dombak Sarod Esraj Oud Tampura