Kabul 1900 sitar restoration – Pt2
In a first part, you can learn about this particular ancient instrument, baptised the Kabul sitar, and read a description of how to check and repair the body and make the missing wooden parts. At that time, it was already clear that other important parts were also missing: at…
Rudra Veena repair
This anonymous rudra veena was found by my friend Guillaume CZLT in Bombay Pekin Bruxelles, a shop for second-hand furniture in Brussels. It was quite badly damaged. One of the tumbas was badly broken, the main bridge had been torn off and lost, and all the frets had been…
Hiren Roy 70’s refurbish
Hiren Roy 70’s refurbished… Peeling tumba & crack repair with color change… New jawari ghoraj mounted… Dieter Zarnitz jawari ghoraj with Cumaru top & Angelim Amargoso feet installed. Pardas added… Added RE komal & DHA komal, 23 pardas in total.
Hybrid Sitar mod
… the ultimate guitar for sitarists … Frédéric t’Serstevens is a young and talented sitarist and disciple of Shubhendra Rao and Kushal Das. Since in the beginning he was a dedicated (bass) guitarplayer, he came up with this rather common idea to convert a sitar into a guitar. But…
Hybrid Sitar, a real Guitar Sitar
The modification of an acoustic travel sitar into an electric hybrid guitar-sitar. Specifications Materials Drawings The modification process This instrument has been made on demand The original idea comes from Frédéric t’Serstevens (March 2016) Design & drawings by Klaas Janssens @ Sitar Factory (April 2016) Completion by Klaas Janssens…
New pardas on Hiren Roy
This old Hiren Roy sitar, brought to me by Arnoud E. needs new pardas and some small repair work. Arnoud provided a full set of new pardas made by Hiren Roy Company, but some of them were made too short. Thus I decided to reuse a selection of the…
Parda lanes
Here we go again …
Day 41 en 42: Making and glueing the parda lanes. These are long and thin strips located on the sides of the neck to hold the pardas.
