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Just got word in Toronto, that my hand made Sitar is about to be shipped! I'm stoked!

I know some Indian resturaunts...
right here in this town,
about to feature them a Texas boy
with a Texas-hindu sound ...

Now, I wont know what I'm doing,
Maybe, I'm just a c lown...
But while the Chai tea's brewing...
Gonna turn them upside down...

How do you know when a sitar is tuned?

GuitarMikeB wrote:How do you know when a sitar is tuned?

geeze mike, doncha know ANYTHING? it's tuned when all those tuning thingie knobs are all pointed the same direction!

grant, i know you must be chamfing at the bit waiting on that. i'm looking fwd to hearing what you come up w on it after you start getting it all figured out. don't keep us waiting too long.

wonder what's harder to figure out? a bagpipe or a sitar?

Dane Ellis Allen wrote:wonder what's harder to figure out? a bagpipe or a sitar?

I wonder which is harder to toss in a dumpster! Ha. I kid. I dig both of those instruments.

Say, Grant...do know what perfect pitch is?



























Tossing a sitar into a dumpster from ten feet away!

Very kewl PD... look forward to hearing what you come up with! I've got one tune in need of a sitar... let me know when you're ready!

Dane Ellis Allen wrote:wonder what's harder to figure out? a bagpipe or a sitar?

Since I care what Dane thinks, I will tell you that it is harder to figure out a bagpipe than a sitar .. especially for a guitar player.

Once you got the sitar tuned, you mostly just play melody on one string while hitting a few open strings tuned to the tonic and fifth for rhythmic effect.

Tuning the Irish uilleann bag pipes can depend on how your reeds are behaving or misbehaving on a particular day. You pump air into the bag with the bellows under the right arm. You control the air pressure by the pressure of your left arm on the bag. You play melody on the chanter using the fingers and thumbs of the right and left hands while playing harmonic accompaniment on the regulators with the edge of the right hand. All this while smoking a leprechaun pipe that is upside down.

,,,, Oh yes, and ... good for you Paperdog!

vinny!

back in DA house!!!! yeah! your insights, humor, and all around knowledge were greatly missed around these parts, sir. welcome back.

Peg Lautny wrote:

Dane Ellis Allen wrote:wonder what's harder to figure out? a bagpipe or a sitar?

I wonder which is harder to toss in a dumpster! Ha. I kid. I dig both of those instruments.

Say, Grant...do know what perfect pitch is?
Tossing a sitar into a dumpster from ten feet away!

I thought perfect pitch was being able to pluck out the lowest bass note from the most reasonable distance... (It requires the use of a car)


Now leave my sitar alone

VinnyViolin wrote:

Dane Ellis Allen wrote:wonder what's harder to figure out? a bagpipe or a sitar?

Since I care what Dane thinks, I will tell you that it is harder to figure out a bagpipe than a sitar .. especially for a guitar player.

Once you got the sitar tuned, you mostly just play melody on one string while hitting a few open strings tuned to the tonic and fifth for rhythmic effect.

Tuning the Irish uilleann bag pipes can depend on how your reeds are behaving or misbehaving on a particular day. You pump air into the bag with the bellows under the right arm. You control the air pressure by the pressure of your left arm on the bag. You play melody on the chanter using the fingers and thumbs of the right and left hands while playing harmonic accompaniment on the regulators with the edge of the right hand. All this while smoking a leprechaun pipe that is upside down.

,,,, Oh yes, and ... good for you Paperdog!

Indeed Thank you, Vinny

PaperDog wrote:

Peg Lautny wrote:

Dane Ellis Allen wrote:wonder what's harder to figure out? a bagpipe or a sitar?

I wonder which is harder to toss in a dumpster! Ha. I kid. I dig both of those instruments.

Say, Grant...do know what perfect pitch is?
Tossing a sitar into a dumpster from ten feet away!

I thought perfect pitch was being able to pluck out the lowest bass note from the most reasonable distance... (It requires the use of a car)


Now leave my sitar alone

If you don't like the raga I'm playin'....
You just leave this long haired sitar playin' boy alone!

Planetguy wrote:vinny!

back in DA house!!!! yeah! your insights, humor, and all around knowledge were greatly missed around these parts, sir. welcome back.

Thank you Planetguy!!

It is nice to be missed ... especially since seeing all the boasting about new guns in some other threads.

Hopefully Paperdog will post some pics or vid of his sitar. Sounds it will be a really nice quality instrument.