Here is a worn tarav mogara. The string is deeply ingrained into the bone rim… this needs to be repaired.
Start with removing the bad piece with a tight-fitting metal pin. Pry it out gently by turning round and round with the metal pin. Clean up the hole…
Select a new one, make sure it is well-fitting!! Or, if you are lucky and it didn’t break, then it can be re-used by rotating it over p.ex. 90°, or 180°…. Glue it, and let it dry.
Apply shaping with a hand-made mill.
Clean it up, check the hole (it may be obstructed by dried up glue) and mount a new string…
Tools
Metal pins, hand drill & hand-made mills.
Improvements
Kartar Chand & Hari Chand add a special tiny tarav mogara bridge to support the string.
Hiren Roy & Barun Roy and many others install a differently shaped mogara.
Je recherche justement des mogras qui n’est pas comme ceux utilisé habituellement
Est-ce que je pourrais me rendre à votre boutique. Merci
Bonjour Daniel,
Vous êtes le bienvenu ici avec votre instrument. Je peux remplacer vos mogaras par le type que vous souhaitez. Elles doivent être fabriquées sur place, mais cela se passe normalement sans problème.
but which glue should i use for gluing the mogras
Best glue for almost everything on a sitar is ordinary wood glue. The simple white stuff that you can find everywhere…!!