What is the difference between guitar and sitar?

Answer 1

A sitar is a melodic instrument, played in and around India; it produces droning sounds as well as played notes, and is essential to much Indian Classical Music. Guitars originated in Western Europe, notably in Spain. Both instrument names descend from the same root as "zither".

Indian music featuring sitars became a fad during the 1960s, and many guitarists tried playing them, or hired sitarists to play on records. George Harrison took lessons with Ravi Shankar, and played sitar on Beatles records, and his own Wonderwall Music. Robbie Van Leeuwen played one on some of his Shocking Blue records.

A "sitar guitar" was developed, that played like a guitar but had resonating strings and a sitar-like drone. Steve Miller rescued one from a parts barrel in the mid-1970s, put it back together, and played it on "Wild Mountain Honey" from his Fly Like an Eagle album.

Answer 2

There is a huge difference between the guitar and sitar. Both instruments have very different purposes, sound different, and are shaped differently.

Answer 3

The guitar is portable and the piano is not, unless you have a keyboard. Another difference is the sound.

Answer 4

A Saxophone is a woodwind instrument made of brass from western music, and the sitar is Indian in origin and is a stringed instrument made mostly from wood.

Answer 5

there are many differences between them but some main ones are that a violin has 4 strings and a guitar has i think 6 or 7. also a guitar has frets and a violin has a finger board.