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(28,394 posts) Thu Apr 7, 2016, 09:46 AM Apr 2016

Today's Google Doodle: Ravi Shankar's 96th birthday:



The centerpiece of today's Doodle, by artist Kevin Laughlin, is a sitar. It has two bridges, one for the "drone" strings and the other for the melody strings. Laughlin's design shows the style of sitar Shankar played, which includes a second gourd-shape resonator at the top of the instrument's neck.

Happy birthday, Pandit Ravi Shankar! See archival photos of Shankar at the Google Cultural Institute.

http://www.google.com/doodles/pandit-ravi-shankars-96th-birthday


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pandit-ravi-shankars-96th-birthday-google-doodle-five-facts-about-the-sitar-maestro-who-taught-a6972211.html
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Today's Google Doodle: Ravi Shankar's 96th birthday: (Original Post) femmocrat Apr 2016 OP
The doodle is as beautiful as his music. Happy Birthday, Ravi Shankar In_The_Wind Apr 2016 #1
HERE! elleng Apr 2016 #2
With the great Ali Akbar Khan elleng Apr 2016 #3
"Traces Of You" greendog Apr 2016 #4
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