" This country's improvisational music uses one of many musical modes associated with a specific time of day and emotion.
ians in this country keep rhythm by indicating downbeats with hand claps, and upbeats with either a tap of a finger against the palm of the same hand, or with a clap of the back of one hand against the palm of the other. The seven notes S, R, G, M, P, D, and N form traditional musical scales of this country, whose unofficial national anthem has a title that means "I bow to thee, Mother." This country's improvisational music uses one of many musical modes associated with a specific time of day and emotion. This is the most populous country in which the (*) harmonium is a household instrument used to play drone music. A plucked string instrument from this country has a resonating gourd behind the fingerboard, and has a long neck with between eighteen and twenty-one tuning pegs, one for each string. The tabla drum is used to keep rhythm in this country, where rhythmic units called tala are played according to melodic structures called raga. For 10 points, name this country home to the sitar.
ians in this country keep rhythm by indicating downbeats with hand claps, and upbeats with either a tap of a finger against the palm of the same hand, or with a clap of the back of one hand against the palm of the other.
India [or Bharat; or Republic of India; or Bharat Ganarajya] 