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We have tried and experimented with total dedication to take instrument making to new & vast dimensions. This is due to the blessings & guidance from our respected musicians.
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Rikhi Ram And Sons: Inside The Mini-Mecca Of Music History In Delhi
We’d recorded the Norwegian Wood backing track and it needed something. We would usually start looking through the cupboard to see if we could come up with something, a new sound, and I picked the s...
Rikhi Ram & Sons: another Now and Then Beatles story
On a dull July afternoon in 1966, the Fab Four walked into Rikhi Ram & Sons. They understood music well, even knew the stringed instruments that dotted the shop.
The transition from Transistor Sitar to Zitar
The transistor sitar was the first of its kind & developed in 1962. During that era, the amplification system was not that advanced & the sitarist was always struggling to get the desired sound as at ...
Why Rikhi Ram Instruments are special?
The musical instruments built at Rikhi Ram by Ajay are carefully crafted from raw timber into a master piece, wafting out beautiful & rich sound and tone.
There are many factors involved in buildin...
JOURNEY OF RIKHI RAM
Indian instruments belong to a tradition dipped in antiquity. It dates back to the Veena of Saraswati, Bansuri of Krishna and Damru of Shiva, corresponding to modern classifications of musical instrum...
Timeline of Rikhiram Innovative Instruments
In the year 1964 Bishan ji experimented by putting a skin head top in the centre of the Tabli, like an American bango, but with a saddle bridge to create the sound of Sarod but played like a sitar.
