SBS-02, with Lipstick pickups
Day 55: I mounted 2 single coil Seymour Duncan – Lipstick model pickups and tried out various combinations. One pickup is reverse winded and reverse polarised, creating thus a humbucking combination which gives less distortion and less noise. The potmeters in front offer volume and tone control while a…
SAS-01, with taravbar
Day 53: Assembling the body after sufficient drying (pardas, cikari- and tarav machine heads, jiwaris & strings). Day 54: Mounting the cikari pins and strings, and doing jiwari. Mounting the taravs and tarav jiwari. Now this semi-accoustic sitar is ready for a first play. Who wants to … ?
Electric Zeetar
Anyone ever seen this one in real ? The Rajah Zeetar is an instrument made in the 1960’s in the likeness of a sitar. Supplied with an electronic amplifier. Made in Japan. It comes with 2 eye-catching big magnetic pickups and the body is made of papier-mache with a…
The Solid Body Sitar
I created a new page about the making of a solid body sitar. Start the discovery by clicking on the picture…
The Solid Body Sitar
A unique combination of ancient and modern know-how. Specifications The making of Report Players This page is about a new style of sitar which is using pickups as the only means of capturing the sound. A prototype is fully working with an EMG model 91 accompanied by two hand…