Thread: Indian Classical Music

Where to start?

(I'm hoping this isn't too off-topic)

Thanks for any suggestions.

There are several ways to start - you could start with an instrument - such as sitar, veena, surbahar, sarod, esraj, sarangi, shehnai, bansuri etc - or by genre - such as North Indian or Karnataka (South Indian) - or style such as dhrupad - or try vocal...a search on You Tube will provide several listening options and you can go from there. If you like, I can post some links to videos I have liked.....

Thank you, Tchaik, for a very helpful reply.

I found various lists in the Medieval site (I searched for "traditional world music recordings" using Google).