Sitar factory near Kolkata
Watch this video from Mr Simonggill about present-day sitar making in Calcutta. Here the real work is done…!! These small factories almost cover the worldwide production of sitars. They produce prefab sitarbodies for all well-known sitar makers such as both Rikhi Ram’s, Hiren Roy, Srishty Musical, RA Sitarmaker, Hari…
Sitar Shopping
Do you want to buy a (new) sitar ? For sure when it is your first sitar then you might feel somewhat uncertain…?? Because very frequently this question has been put to me, I’ve decided to make a “check list” with 10 tips to help you to decide if…
Travel Sitar Mods (3A)
Both Rikhi Ram brothers Ajay & Sanjay, and after them many others, make and sell this handy and compact sitar. Some call it “Ovation” sitar, some call it “Studio” sitar and also “Travel” sitar is commonly used for this successful innovative musical instrument. Commercially it is a succes. No…
Fosse Electric Sitar
Here is an introduction to the Fosse Electric Sitar. This instrument replicates the sound of the classic indian sitar. It is a new solid body electric instrument made out of carbon fibre by Gregg Fosse. More info on www.fossesitar.com (soon ??).
Sarod Kartar Chand
This beautiful sarod was made by late Kartar Chand in the 80’s. Pictures made by Luc De Gezelle. His shop still exists and is now run by his brother Hari Chand. It is located in Paharganj, New Delhi. Visit their shop here.
Gibson EB-3L
During my learning school at Centrum voor MuziekinstrumentenBouw, CMB, at Puurs, Belgium, in 2000 I made a Gibson EB-3L replica. I’ve choosen this electric bass because of the unique and original “slotted head” construction which I applied later to my new style sitars SAS-01 etc… This guitar has a…
Shipment finally arrived…
During my last trip to India in march 2009, I collected some sitar bodies and other instruments. Now they finally arrived, after more then 7 months… Next to a variety of techno-organisatory problems which caused the delay, the packing service got worse as well. This is the result: severely…
More SAS & SBS pictures
New page added with more semi-acoustic sitar & solidbody sitar pictures. These pictures (most of them) are made by Luc De Gezelle. The pictures are coming in autoviewer slideshow mode… Feel free to take a look here. Specs and other info about these instruments can be found here. Or…
Travel Sitar Mods (2)
This modification I made to Mark B’s Travel sitar because he was unable to play the jora tar comfortably. The steel wire jora tar, although open correctly tuned, sounded too high while playing a note on the pardas. I added a fibre intonation block to the jora tar, just…
Travel Sitar Mods (1)
I ‘ve made some simple and interesting technical modifications to Frederic T’s new travel sitar. He has bought it last year in New Delhi. 1) I have installed Schaller™ M6 mini machine heads. These run so much more smooth and accurate then the rather cheap and crappy original machines.…
Vishwakarma Puja
Today is the annual Vishwakarma puja. Hari Om
SBS-03 & SBS-04 ready
The 2 bodies have undergone the finishing strokes : fine sanding, Danish oil treatment, parda making & setting, stringing and jiwari. And after assembling the hardware I could finally mount the pickups and electronics. A Kent Armstrong Slimbucker™ Jazz guitar pickup is on one of them, together with two…