sitar by ravishankar - Ravi Shankar is not a Sitar player?

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Published Oct 4, 2010

With my full respect to Indian Classical Music and musicians! These are 3 small parts of a published DVD of Raviji. A few facts about it: In the first section, called alap all the phrases (meends) are out of tune, in the second part (gat) there are meaningless taans and horrible sitar sound which is out of tune in every movement, and in the third part there is a fake polyphonic (?) playing with Anoushka, maybe like a "canon" in european music, but in Indian music it is meaningless, and the last notes of Raviji JUST meaningless as well and out of tune of course. And then the applause... What is this? This shouldn't be Indian Classical Music! What is this for? And with his international respect it is a big responsibility because people like me buying this DVD and getting this "quality" of music, which is not good, because people will think that THIS IS the Old Tradition of India, what is not.