Word: lute
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military bands, the morning sun glinting richly off their brass, struck up the melancholy strains of Chopin's Funeral March. Twenty-seven visiting chiefs of state, eleven Prime Ministers and 22 other foreign delegates assembled behind the gun carriage. The first rounds of a 101-gun sa lute reverberated across the city. At least 5,000,000 people had turned out for the funeral; Cairo in its thousand and one years had never seen such a spectacle. The mourners waited on the bank of the Nile, 200 deep in some places; they hung from trees and lampposts and fragile scaffolds...
...raga's path seems to change on the first beat of each cycle, which acts as a convergence point for the interplay of the two instrumentalists. Mirza sometimes suggests a rhythm in his strumming, picking right hand (the lute-like sitar is played vaguely like a guitar) which Khan then develops more fully during the coming cycle...