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Dieter Zarnitz

Sitar Factory Posted on Wednesday, 9 April 2008 by AnandaThursday, 25 June 2015

A very special and most beautiful series of sitars and surbahars made by Dieter Zarnitz.

The tumba is replaced by a wooden construction as used in traditional western lute making. Neck and body are made from flamed maple, with old air-dried pine soundboard.  The head and curl are made of rosewood, the tuning pegs are made from ebony.

Dieter Zarnitz Collection

But, all I’ve ever heard about the man who builds these beauties is this flyer, taken by my friend Bert Cornelis at a concert in Aachen (Germany).

flyer

Sitar, Surbahar & Tanpura

Dieter Zarnitz
Gutenbergstr. 40
31139 Hildesheim

Tel: 05121/2043815

dieter.zarnitz@htp-tel.de

Posted in curiosity, lutherie | Tagged Surbahar, varisitari | Leave a reply

Electric Zeetar

Sitar Factory Posted on Thursday, 3 April 2008 by AnandaSaturday, 1 May 2021

Anyone ever seen this one in real ?

Electric Zeetar

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 wooden soundboard, lenght is 112 cm.

Posted in curiosity | Tagged electric, fusion, varisitari | 41 Replies

Hiren Roy Compact Sitar

Sitar Factory Posted on Sunday, 23 March 2008 by AnandaSunday, 23 March 2008

Towards the end of last year Hiren Roy company came with their version of the “compact sitar”.

Hiren Roy Compact=

At first sight a regular sitar with an original slotted head, but …

compact tumba

…they simply cut the tumba by half.

It looks very similar to Sanjay’s “studio travel model“, which has a full wooden body. This very successful concept has been copied and sold by many other sitar makers.

Further pics and details of the Hiren Roy Compact sitar are available at http://www.india-instruments.de/pag/stringinst/sitar/hr_full_com_e.html. Pictures courtesy of www.india-instruments.de.

Posted in curiosity | Tagged HirenRoy, varisitari | 4 Replies

Jay Scott Hackleman

Sitar Factory Posted on Sunday, 16 March 2008 by AnandaMonday, 23 March 2015

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 article about his apprenticeship in the shop of Late Kartar Chand which has originally been published in The Journal of The Guilds of American Luthiers N°67 in 2002.

 

Hari Chand often talked to me about this “very fine young American person”. He showed me many pictures in his much used and thumb marked album. And during one of my last visits Hariji proudly presented me a beautiful copy from this unique article written by Jay. It’s a real extensive documentary (4,13Mb pdf), made with sincere care and love. Thank You So Much, Jay.

Today Tineke found a website about his present-day work.

Read the full Kartar Chand Hari Chand history here.

Posted in lutherie, making | Tagged HariChand, India, KartarChand, SitarMaking, varisitari | Leave a reply

Electric Sitar @ NAMM

Sitar Factory Posted on Wednesday, 30 January 2008 by AnandaSaturday, 1 May 2021

Seen at the annual top-event of music-industry in California :

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Look at the similarities to my solid body sitar.
Or, check here: blog categories sitar making.

Posted in listen, lutherie | Tagged electric, fusion, varisitari | Leave a reply

Flower Sitar completed

Sitar Factory Posted on Saturday, 9 June 2007 by AnandaSaturday, 9 June 2007

The flower sitar in the hands of its proudly owner, Thierry.
The sitar is ready but it’s not really sufficiently solid to actually play it. Too bad…

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Posted in curiosity, repair | Tagged varisitari | 5 Replies

Flower Sitar on visit

Sitar Factory Posted on Monday, 14 May 2007 by AnandaMonday, 14 May 2007

This flower sitar belonging to Thierry Willame is on a visit.
We want to change it into a playable instrument.

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Continue reading →

Posted in curiosity, repair | Tagged varisitari | 2 Replies

How to make a mizrab, the translation

Sitar Factory Posted on Tuesday, 10 April 2007 by AnandaTuesday, 10 April 2007

Here is the translation of “how to make mizrab” section taken from an old “teach yourself sitar” manual.

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Or, try this alternative animated demonstration .

Posted in lutherie, making | Tagged Mizrab, varisitari | Leave a reply

Basic sitar tuning

Sitar Factory Posted on Saturday, 31 March 2007 by AnandaSaturday, 31 March 2007

I added a basic sitar tuning chart to the maintenance page…

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I hope it helps some motivated beginners to start the journey.

Posted in playing | Tagged tuning, varisitari | Leave a reply

How to make a Mizrab … in one minute

Sitar Factory Posted on Sunday, 18 March 2007 by AnandaWednesday, 12 January 2022

Here is my ” how to make mizrab ” ( .wmv, 683kB ) instructions, which I’ve learned from Hari Chand.

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And, the last step 7 = “Mizrab stretch out” can be done like this:

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If you can read Hindi, please find some more details here. 🙂

Posted in lutherie, making | Tagged Mizrab, varisitari | 8 Replies

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