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Uploaded by on Mar 20, 2007

raga todi recorded before sunrise with night vision this is the only recording i have of the badly and overpriced made sitar i learned on. thanks shivelbines

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  • that sounded relly nice! way to go man.

  • Light as a feather? Not always but an older sitar might well be due to the wood drying out.

    Nick tripmonk0

  • Bravo to this young man for sharing his best, which I like. As for what makes a cheap sitar, my cheapies' problems are that the upper frets buzz the strings; rough sympathetic peg holes (tuning doesn't stick); peg wood weak (one broke); or you don't like the sound from the jawari/bridge; nipples (for holes of sympathetics) chipped or sloppy. One "expert" cracked my good sitar's neck and did crappy jawari work since he wasn't charging me after his crack. I liked my cheapie better. Buyer beware.

  • My 1st was a super cheapie to see if I'd like it. My guru didn't like it, but being a poor boy from the gutter, I was thrilled just to have it and do my best, feeling it a privilege just to attempt such beautiful ragas. It gets harder not to be a sitar snob after years of improving in my attempts. To me there's something attractive about being poor and getting art out of the best I can afford.

  • Not entirely sure. Probably one with a crappy quality pumpkin at the bottom.

  • what kind is it?

  • Probably the quality of the wood used. My dad used to know an Indian guy who was really good at sitar, and he shown one to him in a shop somewhere, but the guy didn't want it because it was too heavy. Good sitars are meant to be as light as a feather apparently, so it probably explains why this guy hates his.

  • what makes your sitar cheap and badly made?

  • it depends. being a guitar player i didn't find difficult to play a sitar, but maybe others yes, i don't know. the hardest thing is stay in the right position and hold the sitar

  • It sounds like a nice, authentic sitar!

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