As the electric sitar was much easier to play than the traditional version it quickly became the preferred choice of most rock musicians.

Featuring the sound of the electric sitar, the song reached number five in 1969 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In the middle, it detours into 1960's-style bachelor-pad fantasy, with what sound like electric sitars.

The bridge of the electric sitar is creates the sound of a sitar.

Vedder played an electric sitar on the song, giving it an Eastern-influenced sound.

That Clapton song, five years hence, will immediately signal "1998" the way an electric sitar moans "late 1960's."

Featured prominently on the 1971 album Somethin' Else was an electric sitar, played by an unidentified individual.

Some electric sitars have drone strings in lieu of sympathetic strings.

Versions of the electric sitar were also developed mainly in India.

A year later, the Coral line, known for its hollow-bodies and electric sitars, was introduced.