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<p><font color="#0066cc" size="2" face="Tahoma">From ancient times, Indians have revelled in their music and a wide variety of musical instruments have been used by folk from all parts of the country. They all serve to provide the haunting rhythm or a thunderous backing to the lyrics in question. Here are some of the musical instruments listed by their traditional names.<br><br>Bowed / String Instruments<br><a href="http://bigloveindia.com/esraj.html"><font color="#0066cc">Esraj or dilruba</font></a>, <a href="http://bigloveindia.com/sarangi.html"><font color=#0066cc>Sarangi</font></a>, <a href="http://bigloveindia.com/sarinda.html"><font color=#0066cc>Sarinda</font></a>, <a href="http://bigloveindia.com/sitar.html"><font color=#0066cc>Sitar</font></a>, <a href="http://bigloveindia.com/rebab.html"><font color=#0066cc>Rebab</font></a>, <a href="http://bigloveindia.com/ravanhasta.html"><font color=#0066cc>Ravanhasta</font></a> &amp; <a href="http://bigloveindia.com/veena.html"><font color="#0066cc">Veena (Saraswati)</font></a><br><br>Indian Bamboo Flutes<br><font color=#0066cc><a href="http://bigloveindia.com/bansuri.html"><font color=#0066cc>Bansuri</font></a></font><a href="http://bigloveindia.com/bansuri.html"><font color="#0066cc">, Pullanguzhal or Venu</font></a><br><br>Double reed<br><a href="http://bigloveindia.com/kuzhal.html"><font color=#0066cc>Kuzhal</font></a>, <a href="http://bigloveindia.com/nadaswaram.html"><font color=#0066cc>Nadaswaram</font></a> &amp; 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