Hari Chand is closing shop
This time I returned from India with rather mixed feelings. My best friend, and sitarmaker – teacher Hari Chand is seriously considering to get retired. He is now nearly 77 years old and suffers from pain in his hands, his knees and other joints. The daily trip from his…
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…
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…
Vishwakarma Puja
Today is the annual Vishwakarma puja. Hari Om
Jazz Sitar in Delhi, a soundscape
As every year when I am in Delhi, our dear Swedish friend Hans (Hasse) came to visit me -and this time also my new sitar- in Hari Chands sitar shop. Hans is living half of the year in India and the other half in his house on Gotland. He…
Jazz Sitar in Delhi, a report
I arrived safe and well at Indira Gandhi Airport Terminal in New Delhi. Also my new SAS-02 in its solid stormcase came out unharmed. It was past midnight when we finally entered my dearest Hari Chand’s house in Dashrathpuri, so everybody went straight to bed… The next morning I…
Jazz Sitar in India
From monday 2/03/2009 till 12/03/2009 I will be in New Delhi, India with one of my new sitars. I will be visiting my best friend and sitarmaker Hari Chand to whom I want to show my new style sitars. But since I cannot take them all with me, I…
Jay Scott Hackleman
Jay Scott Hackleman and late Kartar Chand Sharma 21 years ago Jay Scott Hackleman was so very lucky to be able to spend a whole year in the very special company of some of the world’s finest traditional sitarmakers, Kartar Chand & Hari Chand Sharma. He wrote a profound…
Bert in India II
Onze goede vriend Bert Cornelis op toernee in India, het bewijs…: Een meer dan levensgrote affiche van Bert Cornelis & Pt. Uddhav Shinde, sitar & pakhawaj jugalbandi… in de straten van Latur, India. Op de affiche met Hridaynath Mangeshkar, een broer van de wereldberoemde Lata Mangeshkar. Een foto uit…
Bert Cornelis in India
Our good friend Bert Cornelis on tour in India : Bert Cornelis & Pt. Uddhav Shinde, sitar & pakhawaj jugalbandi… in Latur, India. On the poster with Hridaynath Mangeshkar, a brother of the world-famous singer Lata Mangeshkar. More info about Bert on www.sitarplayer.be.
3 sitarmaker 3
2 times 3 sitarmakers in 1 scooter, …everything is possible in New Delhi. 2005 & 2007 Always having fun … !! See also new page on Kartar Chand’s Shop at “blog pages”.