Homemade acoustic guitar-sitar (test)

[karllieb]

excellent- best I've heard at copping the right sound. Makes me think of Bert jansch playing.

[TheAuralab]

amazing sound

[rakeshvenkat64]

MASTER PIECE

[producito]

great ¡¡¡

[filmcrew1551]

I'm sure youve heard this before but... "WHOA"

[dukeuke1]

THEE BEST I`ve Heard So far & I`ll Buy One ! ?

[viarnay]

sounds great, good job.

[paco121]

whats that big ball behind the thing

[olorinkeu]

@paco121

think, it's the very resonator.

[paco121]

@olorinkeu does it make effects orrrr?

[feelingproject]

Excellent.. J'v bricoler un truc dans l'genre un d'ces blues

[MultiStudioX]

WTH cool!

[Brandovibe]

I would love to hear this on a 12 string guitar.

[HIMAT11]

@thomasjeeh thanks for your coment. This version of the guitar-sitar doesn't exist because it was imposible to tune and change the tuning (lydian, dorian, major, minor...) You can understand better on the slide show on the guitar-sarod. If you give me your @dress I can send you photos.

[maboroshisou]

欲しい

[Cj12sings]

Oh my< WHoa @ 0.53 amazing!!!!! amazing!!!!! wonderful sound thanks for posting!!!!!!!

[rlong19]

Fantastic!  Cudos!

[LuccaTotti]

What tuning and string gauge you use on hte sympathectic strings?

[HIMAT11]

@LuccaTotti

This version of this instrument with sympathetic strings on the guitar doesn't exist.

For the last version I use 0.9 or 0.10 gauge.

[beefheartwitch]

please can you write the guitar scale of this marvelous session

[HIMAT11]

@beefheartwitch For the sympatetic strings...I don't remember, but there is some notes for the C Lydian scale and the C Major scale, I think. It's was a test so I played without thinking...;o) Thanks a lot for your interest.

[MrCraigary123]

A ma ZEN

[stuszith]

Thats incredible ,, sounds so much like Ravi Shankar or whoever is the popular Sitarist now. Who would think a Guitar could be changed over so well.

[adolfkaw]

amazingggggggg

[cantelli11]

this is amazing

[TheJoeyTaylor]

That's a hell of a construction! Shame about the idiotic "top" comments. 

[GeankDOORS]

Man...that was awesome!!! both the fact that you did that for yourself and offcourse your playing! congrats

[MorenNoise]

WOAA! That's awesome!!! Someday I will achieve or make one of those...

[castellanoguitar]

awesome i love this....thanks

[theegg89]

wow it sounds great, very well done mate.

[matridenour]

Did you make the jawari bridge? Or buy it somewhere?



[keo774]

that's crazy! great

[jcdlj950]

Whaouuuuuuuuuuuu! I very very very like it.

[DaveDragon10]

quality stoner music

[TheReeferMadness13]

damn thats awesome as fuck!! im jealousss

[ErhanAbi]

You are awesome! I hope my guitar will also sound like this one time!

[Bennytet]

The best version of "When the Saints come marching in" I have ever heard! The fact you modified an old guitar to sound so beautiful as it does is incredible. This is a true inspiration...

[AzathothianBrew]

That's an amazing piece of equipment there, did you use anything in particular to base the design on? You invented an acousitar!

[travisrlel]

Beautiful

[evaroth50]

Whoa... Hippy music.I am enthused. LOL.

[hobojaboobala]

how duz it make that "deeeeeoooowww" sound?

[booyahh415]

@hobojaboobala The sound is from the Sympathetic strings, which are the strings going across the body. they vibrate at the same frequency as one of the notes on the guitar and when that certain note is hit, it vibrates at the same time. i believe, i may be wrong

[urzathehappy72]

@hobojaboobala sympathetic strings nd magic



[ricochetfuzzy]

you should fit some form of pickup on this and play it with fx :D

[1770studios]

wich are the notes of the sympathethic strings?

[dudewheresmylespaul]

This is so awesome, what was your total cost for the guitar and the modifications?

Thanks for uploading this!

[HIMAT11]

@dudewheresmylespaul

I think the cost was 60 € for the guitar 15 years ago , and the sitar bridge was 15 $ on e bay India, 60$ for the 18 tuning machines, a wood leaf to repair the head (5 $), a dremel to work on the fretboard, 30 $ for the es 335 tailpiece, the extra resonator was from my parent's garden and 18 strings.....some liters of coffee and some kilos of tobacco ;o))

[algore1993]

@HIMAT11 where i live, they sell a guitar for 100$, and the quality's great, believe me :)

[HIMAT11]

@algore1993 An acoustic guitar sitar?

[algore1993]

@HIMAT11 well just the guitar

[whitehair024]

who's continue using computer.......the sound of typing is so loudly.

[xdrukqs]

flawless!

[phrames84]

freakin amazing!!!!!!!

[artcorebass]

dude did you make that?

[gurreu]

Wow man this is awesome!!

[nachogarfe]

Hello. This is great. For a long time I was thinking how to do this in a useful a good sounding way. And you did it.!!!!!

Could you answer me several questions about your work? Please, write me to nachoga@excite.com if you want. I will be great for me. Thank you.

Nacho from Spain

[thelostcaribou]

outstanding

[ov3rcl0cked]

Could you provide some kind of tutorial on how you did this?

[flatupapas]

truly one of a kind...

[zab666]

You do not sell this guitar by any chance? 

[hamiltone67]

i love the tone you get and your playing is very tasteful top marks 10 out of 10 ,the thumb bash at the start had me hooked

[KataVideo]

that thing is amazing. wonderful creativity

[ironbuttermilk]

Ick! What a huge, ugly monstrosity. It sounds wonderful of course, because you're such a brilliant player.

I put a buzzing bridge extension underneath the zither strings of my electric sitar. This gives a far more authentic sound. They still don't work well as 'sympathetic' strings for the most part, but are more useful overall. The same thing would work on your monster. Chickaree strings in place of the low E also work well.

[loofahbox]

Neat