Electric sitar

• Search: Agile Electric Sitar Agile Sitar Add an electric Sitar to your collection! The Sitar is an ancient Indian instrument with history dating back over 600 years. Originally, a sitar was made out of a hollowed out pumpkin for the body and a gourd for the top of the neck. • The electric Sitar allows a guitarist to add the familiar whirring sounds of the traditional sitars to their music • These great sounds are produced thanks to the instruments unique Gotoh Buzz Bridge, 3 lipstick pickups, 13 sympathetic strings, and hollow body construction • Playing the electric sitar is basically the same as palying a guitar with a few variations in the stlye of play • The 13 sympathetic strings are played with the main guitar strings; the sympathetic strings are for resonated sounds • The 13 sympathetic strings are all .010 guage and are tuned to a chromatic scale. The longest and lowest string is tuned to E and it is the same pitch as the high E string on the guitar neck fretted at the 12th fret. All other strings are tuned in 1/2 step intervals. • There are many other ways to tune the sympathetic strings. Feel free to experiment and try different scales. • Each pickup features it own volume and tone control allowing for a wide range of expressive control • String height and intoation can be adjusted with the Buzz Bridge • Mesornite hollow body • Bolt on maple neck • Rosewood fretboard with 21 frets and Graphite Nut • 1-ply plexiglass pickguard • Black/Red painted, cracking finis...

Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, for example, played a sitar on Paint It, Black, recorded in March 1966 a few months after the release of Rubber Soul in December 1965. However, the Beatles were not the first pop/rock band to experiment with sitar sounds – the Kinks featured one on See My Friends released in mid 1965, and the Yardbirds attempted to use one on Heart Full of Soul, hiring an actual sitar player before settling on Jeff Beck’s fuzz box simulation instead. Unlike most of their British peers, the Beatles employed the sounds of a sitar several more times after that, including Love You To and Tomorrow Never Knows ( Revolver), Within You Without You ( Sgt. Pepper’s) and the single The Inner Light. [Note that the sitar in Tomorrow Never Knows was a short backwards recording; the drone was created by a tambura.] Hence, the Beatles deservedly take credit for popularizing the sitar in a pop music context. During the mid-’60s, many guitarists wanted to copy the Beatles’ sitar sounds but few wanted to buy a real one and spend the time and effort it took to master it. Session guitarist Vinnie Bell and Nathan Daniel of Danelectro collaborated on an ingenious electric version, the Coral Vincent Bell Electric Sitar, introduced in 1967. Instead, the strings are more effectively played in a harp style. The original model featured three lipstick tube single-coil pickups (two for the six-string neck and one for the sympathetic strings), each with individual volume and tone knobs...

Late-’60s Coral Electric SitarFor centuries, Indian musicians have utilized the resonant sympathetic strings of the sitar to create the unique sounds of classical Indian music. Traditional sitar design combines a body fashioned from a large gourd with a long, hollow neck made of teak or tun wood and two bridges made of bone, horn, or ebony at the base of the body. Typically built with 18, 19, or 20 strings, six or seven primary playable strings run across raised, adjustable frets into one bridge with the remaining drone strings fed through small holes in the fretboard and onto the second bridge in order to pick up sympathetic vibrations from the playable strings. In the 1950s and ’60s, Indian musician Ravi Shankar brought the sitar to a wider audience when he toured the world performing his own compositions and Indian classical music. The sitar then found its way onto popular recordings of the ’60s after The Beatles’ George Harrison embraced the instrument and studied under Shankar and Shambhu Das. It can be heard on several Beatles songs, and on the Rolling Stones’ 1966 hit “Paint It Black.” The popularity of the Indian sitar led to an inventive American instrument – the electric sitar. Amplifier designer/builder Nat Daniel founded the Danelectro company in 1947 with the intention of producing well-made budget instruments and amplifiers. In addition, the company supplied instruments to Sears Roebuck under the brand name Silvertone, as well as Airline-branded instruments t...

Excellent condition Rogue electric “sitar.” Has 13 sympathetic drone strings (currently tuned to E Phrygian in the same manner an actual sitar would be tuned.) & 6 regular guitar strings that goes over a bridge intended to mimic a sitar bridge (jawarii). Definitely has potential to get cool sounds & textures with it as is, just not really my thing. Asking $900 plus shipping though would much prefer to do a localpickuparrangement if someone were to reach out to my ad for this instrument oncraigslist where t is also listed cheaper....

Depending on the manufacturer and its features, Electric sitarbears varying degrees of similarity with the traditional sitar. An electric sitar is smaller in length as compared to traditional sitar. Most of the Electric Sitars look like electric guitars due to its electrical mechanism. An electric sitar can be played without connecting it to an amplifier but the sound will be low. An electric sitar usually has a flat sound box (toomba) unlike traditional sitar. It is usually made of wood and no gourd is used. There are wide varietyof Electric Sitars available with us. The difference between the variousmodels is in the design of neck and the carving on its body. Major Branded Electric Sitars available with us are from these makers: Kanai Lal & Sons, Monoj Kumar Sardar MKS and Maharaja Musicals.

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New to Reverb? In the '60s, there was a surge in popularity in the West for Indian music, and especially the sitar. George Harrison was the first on a pop record with the big Indian instrument, heard on "Norwegian Wood" on Rubber Soul at the end of 1965, and Brian Jones snuck his into the "Paint It, Black" and "Mother's Little Helper" A-sides released a few months later. Using the sitar became a trend, although George wasn't impressed by what he'd started. "What I dislike about the sitar is the way it's become the 'in thing.' I never wanted this," he told Music Maker in 1966. "It's just become a part of the bandwagon, with too many people having a go with it, just to be considered 'in.'" The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood" What was needed was an easier way for mere pop mortals to get the sound of the sitar, an instrument that serious Indian masters such as Ravi Shankar spent a lifetime attempting to master. Step up one Vincent Gambella, better known as New York session man Vinnie Bell. He'd worked with Nat Daniel, who'd set up The key to their invention was a new type of bridge, intended to provide a sitar-like sound from an otherwise relatively normal electric guitar. The almost-flat plastic bridge did create a buzzy sound for their instrument but also made it notoriously difficult to intonate. Vinnie and Nat's Patent. In Vinnie and Nat's patent, filed in 1967, they said a real sitar "produces somewhat of a buzzing sound as the melody is played" and that "the buzz results from...

Configuration In addition to the six playing strings, most electric sitars have The "sympathetic" strings on most electric sitars do not resonate strongly enough to match the effect of an acoustic sitar. There are resonant chambers in the solid-body instruments that have Masonite tops, however it is not enough to excite the 13 strings into true sympathy. The strings are tensioned over two rosewood bridges with fret material as saddles so the sound is more like an Versions of the electric sitar were also developed mainly in India. These are smaller sized sitars that look like a sitar. These sitars are tuned the same way as the original classical sitar would be tuned. Usage Because the tone quality and playing technique differ significantly from that of the sitar, it is typically used in rock, jazz, and Other recording artists who have featured the electric sitar include: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Although On his award-winning 1969 instrumental rendition of the The 1971 album Somethin' Else recorded by On The 1992 album In 2010, Blues musician The 2014 album The 2015 song "Multi-Love" by