sitars

These instruments are called sitars more for the sound they make than their actual configuration.

A swarm of electric sitars on the 'Bay 2005

Though some of the old sensibility is detectable – mainly in the lyrics' gloomy worldview epitomised by I'm Having a Coffee's Pooterish line "The fuse has bust on the plug on the telly/ There's something strange at the back of the fridge" and their penchant for Asian flavours such as sitars – you'd hardly recognise them as first-wave synth-poppers.

Blancmange: Blanc Burn – review 2011

That is why bands tend to avoid doing the 22-minute versions of their anthemic hits—the one with the dueling sitars in the middle—the way they did in 1968.

Rockers Too Far Up the Stairway to Heaven Joe Queenan 2011

There are two sitars, a real Fender Rhodes, and a couple of different organs.

Mike Ragogna: Lighting Up and Lifting Off The Ground : Conversations With Shawn Mullins and Chely Wright Mike Ragogna 2010

"Only in New York do you get two sitars in a row," he told the crowd.

Line Up to be Next Subway Idol 2010

There are two sitars, a real Fender Rhodes, and a couple of different organs.

Mike Ragogna: Lighting Up and Lifting Off The Ground : Conversations With Shawn Mullins and Chely Wright Mike Ragogna 2010

He turned up the volume, filling the cab with the sounds of flutes and sitars.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

He turned up the volume, filling the cab with the sounds of flutes and sitars.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

He turned up the volume, filling the cab with the sounds of flutes and sitars.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

When Blossom got off, she joined us at the table, and the other band got on, and the other band was a group of Indian musicians who were playing tablas, and they were playing ragas, they were playing sitars, stuff like that, and they were just wailing away.

Celebrating The Johnny Mercer Centennial 2009