Hello dear reader! Or better still, dear researcher! Save the Sitar is proud to bring to you the field work of Ali Ayub, a former student at NCA whose graduation dissertation explored the major sitar gharanas found in Pakistan. In 2007 he set off on a journey across the country to interview prominent sitarists and document the diversity of their styles and the details of their family histories. The resultant 9 hours of tapes have no parallel on this side of the Indo-Pak border, so immerse yourself in this in depth musical journey!

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Special thanks to Sarah Zaman for guiding and supporting us throughout this project. Ali Ayub would like to remember the late Riaz Ahmad Barni for his kindness and thank his videographer Vishal Rajput.

If you are a researcher interested in using this work, have questions or language difficulties, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us in the comments, via email at savethesitar@gmail.com or through our various social media pages.

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