Eventually even the restoration of an anonymous tanpura gets finished…
Sound sample: Listen how it sounds !!
Eventually even the restoration of an anonymous tanpura gets finished…
Sound sample: Listen how it sounds !!
Here’s the renewed fretless fingerboard.
Some time ago Nik G. asked me to modify this Simon & Patrick guitar into a sarod…
but first a little damage had to be repaired… Continue reading →
Day 30: Modelling the first soundboard. This is the result, after a first rough cutting and sanding session.
Day 26: Finishing the joint, making it equal to the height of the body sides and inserting an acoustic pipe between the neck and the soundbody.
Day 23 & 24 : Worked 2 days to make the joints fit perfectly. A very precise job.
Talking about a joint here means the connection between two different wooden parts of the instrument: the neck and the body. It is a very important item covering strenght and stability. The body is tilted 4° backwards and 2° downwards according to the neck’s axis. This doesn’t make it more easy.
There was the start of a new creation, exactly 1 year ago…
The flower sitar in the hands of its proudly owner, Thierry.
The sitar is ready but it’s not really sufficiently solid to actually play it. Too bad…