Indian Music Instruments

Indian Music is very important to Hinduism. Indian Music actually refers to an old music, a traditional one based on raga and a rhythmic system called "tala". Raga is considered to be the melodic basis of Indian classical music. Indian Musical Instruments can be mainly classified into three categories: classical, western and folk instruments. There are wind, percussion and string instruments. The wind instruments are: bansuri (one of the oldest instruments in India), pungi, shehnai etc.. The percussion ones are: chanda, dhol, dholak, tabla etc. The string ones are: ektara, tanpura, sarangi, sarod, sitar, santoor etc.