General Music Chat

Congratulations on the new instrument .. and musical world!

Does the place that you got the sitar from do jawari work? If not, you may want to add that to your list of maintenance studies. To keep the sitar sounding sweet, you need to maintain the curve of the bridge for a good jawari buzz.

Once you get familiar with a sitar, you could easily also find your way around on an esraj ... it sort of like a cross between a cello and a sitar, a cello with frets and sympathetic strings. You may even find it to be more suited for some of the roles you may intend to be using sitar for .. the exotic moody effects.

Best of all it can also be fitted with a little horn attachment turning it into a cello sized stroh fiddle!

Thanks Vinny! Thats great advice and I will definately follow through on that maintenance.

But the truth be told... I am doing this also because I am the only MF in my town to do it... Its bound to get me some special gig opps

grant, i can see you now plunking away, sitting crosslegged on a blanket in the corner of some indian restaurant!

My New Mantra In Meditation :

"Shanti....Hawwwwwwwwwww...!

That's Texas for Indian (not native American) Hee Haw

Got an Email the other day... They told me the instrument was on back-order. My first thought was sheeeit I been hoodwinked.... But then I got a phone call the next day.. Very nice gentlemen on the phone, said he was following up on the email. He had offered alternatives, and explained the one I ordered was being hand-made and should arrive sometime in January.

I told him it was cool, I'll wait and will see it then.

Got an Email the other day... They told me the instrument was on back-order. My first thought was sheeeit I been hoodwinked.... But then I got a phone call the next day.. Very nice gentlemen on the phone, said he was following up on the email. He had offered alternatives, and explained the one I ordered was being hand-made and should arrive sometime in January.

I told him it was cool, I'll wait and will see it then.

"hand-made" I have yet to see an instrument from India that was not handmade! The quality of the handy work can vary by a jaw dropping degree though. $1000 should get you a decent playing instrument. Did you order from Buckingham?

Got an Email the other day... They told me the instrument was on back-order. My first thought was sheeeit I been hoodwinked.... But then I got a phone call the next day.. Very nice gentlemen on the phone, said he was following up on the email. He had offered alternatives, and explained the one I ordered was being hand-made and should arrive sometime in January.

I told him it was cool, I'll wait and will see it then.

"hand-made" I have yet to see an instrument from India that was not handmade! The quality of the handy work can vary by a jaw dropping degree though. $1000 should get you a decent playing instrument. Did you order from Buckingham?

Nope , a place in Toronto (Kendar).