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Tempo, or perceived speed, is an important characteristic of any music piece. In Hindustani instrumental music, different sections of a concert are characterised by the absence or presence of a regular rhythm and the speed of the music. In this paper, we analyse the tempo of concerts of a particular plucked-string instrument, the sarod. We first describe and evaluate different methods to detect plucks...