Sitar Factory

Time 2020-11-04 07:03:22

Web Name: Sitar Factory

WebSite: http://www.sitarfactory.be

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JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site.More than one year ago, an awfull sitar was brought to me. At first sight it looked like it was burnt, but actually it was only drowned for some time. This sitar was stored in a basement which has been filled with water due to an inundation. Only after some time it has been rescued and luckily it was protected by a good fiber case. All the strings and hardware got ruined. The damage to the tumba was horrible but the neck seemed to have endured the misadventure well.I removed all the hardware and pegs and started to let the sitar rest and dry up completely for almost one year. Then, after some time, the tumba s lacquer finish started to peel off. So, I removed everything which was hanging some loose and made a new build-up. Fortunately it was a decent tumba, sturdy and round. Then colouring and a fresh full-scale shellac finish finally made it look like a new real good Srishti Musical sitar.Dear friends, please hereby find some info about different styles of tabli. Clicking on the pictures will show up a drawing presenting the thickness (in mm) on different locations of the tabli and a zoom showing details of the surface finishing on the backside. Notice the increased thickness at the jawaris section to prevent indent on the surface.1. Kartar Chand RS style 1980 Tun wood 2. Naskar RS style Teak wood 3. Hari Chand RS style 2005 Tun wood 4. Rikhi Ram VK style 1970 Tun wood 5. Unknown 1980 RS style Tun wood 6. SAS-02 New style 2008 Walnut wood A new set of jawaris made by Dieter Zarnitz. The wood comes from leftover pieces of a construction. Cumaru is a very fine, hard and durable construction-wood. Angelim Amargoso is very heavy and rougher than Cumaru. Both grow in South America. The colour you see is the natural one. The setting ( jawari ) can be done at the Sitar Factory (Belgium) or at Dieter s house (Germany).You can contact Dieter Zarnitz via e-mail (click here). without words Technical info on strings tuning:Baj tar: steel 0,37mm (N°5) tuned to F#2 (MA)Sa tar: bronze 0,46mm (N°26) tuned to C#2 (SA)PA tar: bronze 0,56mm (N°24) tuned to G#2 (PA)Laraj: bronze 0,72mm (N°22) tuned to C#1 (SA)Kharaj: flatwound bronze 0,92mm (N°20) tuned to G#1 (SA)Cikari’s: steel 0,30mm (N°3) 0.28 (N°2) tuned to C#3 (SA) C#4 (SA)Tarav s: steel 0,28mm (N°2) the ultimate guitar for sitarists Frédéric t Serstevens is a young and talented sitarist and disciple of Shubhendra Rao and Kushal Das. Since in the beginning he was a dedicated (bass) guitarplayer, he came up with this rather common idea to convert a sitar into a guitar. But now in a suitable and really original way: why not make the accompanying strings, jora, laraj kharaj, entirely playable on the full neck area?On traditional sitars, it is common that these strings only can be played (without meend) up to the 4th, 5th, 7th parda. From then onwards, very frequently, intonation problems occur due to a continuously and significantly increasing strings action. This means that the distance between the string and the frets (pardas) increases too much, and thus the played notes become higher untill unplayable.The solution is very simple: reduce the strings action by changing the shape of the pardas.original shape (Rikhi Ram)hybrid shape (Sitar Factory)With this kind of new hybrid pardas, mounted on a raised parda lane, the action on the strings is higly reduced. And as such coming very close to a near perfect intonation, comparable to a guitar:Now even chords can be played perfectly on this instrument making it the extreme sitar for guitarists, or, reverse ?? Or just: the ultimate hybrid sitar

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