Ustad Vilyat Khan Style Sitar
Vilayat Khan was both a traditional sitar player and a maverick innovator in his music. He was given a lot of credit for developing a sitar style called 'gayaki ang', where his sitar attempted to mimic the sound of the human voice and seemed to give the audience a sense that the sitar was singing.
Sitars in the 'Vilayat Khan style', also called gandhar pancham sitars, have only one sound-box and a rather chaste ornamentation.