Although soft-spoken and possessing fewer strings than normal (5 main and 6 sympathetic), all this "baby" sitar needed was someone to listen closely. Intended as more decoration than instrument, we feel this little guy has been highly underestimated. Simply being small isn't bizarre by any means, but what is bizarre is how it can achieve such a lush, full-bodied sound while being so small. ![]() At just over 24" in length, however, this little beauty is barely half the size of a standard sitar. It has most of the elements found on any other sitar, with it's traditional gourd body, both main playable strings and sympathetic resonating strings, parda (adjustable curved frets), kunti (tuning pegs), dandi (neck), ghoraj (main bridge) all complete with orante hand-painted accents. ![]() ![]() Bizarre Sitar may not seem so strange at first glance.
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