Indian Music is very important to Hinduism.
Indian Music actually refers to an old music, a traditional one based on
raga and a rhymthmic 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.
