For those looking to learn a new instrument, Bronstein Music in South San Francisco is hosting a workshop this weekend on the ancient Persian santoor. The santoor is a 72-string musical instrument ...

SRINAGAR: In a modest workshop filled with the fragrance of seasoned wood, 78-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Zaz continues a craft his family has preserved for eight generations — the making of the Kashmiri ...

Each musical instrument has its own melodic potential and innate charm, which has to be awakened by the caressing touch of some musical genius. For the romantic and resonant santoor came in the person ...

Nobody else could have been a better ambassador of the santoor than the Jammu-born Pt. Shivkumar Sharma. Raised in the lap of the Himalayas, he captured the melody of the mountain air and serenity of ...

For more than six decades, 85-year-old Ghulam Muhammad Zaz has been diligently crafting classical music instruments like the santoor and rabab by hand in his small workshop on the second floor of a ...

On the banks of river Jhelum in Srinagar’s Siraj Bazaar area of Zaina Kadal, Ghulam Mohammad Zaz is sitting in his house to handcraft santoor, a traditional musical instrument. The 70-year-old Zaz is, ...

andit Shiv Kumar Sharma, who died last week, was undoubtedly the greatest player of the santoor in the subcontinent. This can be said with certainty because he created that instrument that he excelled ...