sitar player vs musician

sitar player and musician both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sitar player	Yes	No	No	No
musician	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, musician is a hypernym of sitar player; that is, musician is a word with a broader meaning than sitar player:

Other hypernyms of sitar player include instrumentalist, player.

sitar player (noun)	musician (noun)
a musician who plays the sitar	artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
	someone who plays a music as a profession