Kanai Lal Sitar, Kaddu Patta, Ravi Shankar Style, Fiber Case - DDC

A sitar made by Kanai Lal & Sons in Kolkata: double Toomba - Fully Decorated - With Fiber Trolley.

Specifications

• Fully Tuned Sitar
• Fully Decorated
• Made with thoroughly-dried Tun Wood
• Dark Color Finish
• Steel, Bronze & Brass Strings
• Kharaj Pancham Style: 7 Main & 13 Sympathetic Strings
• Carved Wooden Tuning Pegs
• Tasteful Celluloid Inlay Work
• Full Decorated, Kaddu Patta (Pumpkin Leaf) Design
• Double Toomba (One Main Gourd Toomba, One wooden Toomba)
• Handmade, Camel Bone Bridges
• Fine-tuning beads/duck made with Camel Bone
• (You can request Fiber bridges and beads instead of camel bone at no extra cost)
• Includes a Beautiful Trolley with Wheels, made with Fiber
• Length: 51 Inches approx
• Weight: 4-5 Kg approx

Tuning

We have professionally setup the Maharaja Musicals Electric Sitar with strings of specific gauges and materials so that the below given traditional tuning is achieved. Please note that your Sitar may loose tuning while in transit to you or if left unused for some time. Here is some help to start tuning your sitar. We are trying to tune the sitar in the traditional Kharaj Pancham - Ravi Shankar style, in the key of C. Please have a chromatic tuner handy.

• 1st String - Ma - F (An octave below Middle-C)
• 2nd String - Sa - C (An octave below Middle-C, below the F of 1st string)
• 3rd String - Pa - G (Below the C of 2nd string)
• 4th String - Sa - C (Two octaves below Middle-C, below the G of 3rd String)
• 5th String - Pa - G (one octave above the 3rd string, above the F of the 1st String)
• 6th String - Sa - C (Middle C, above the G of 5th String)
• 7th String - Sa - C (one octave above Middle C, above the C of 6th String)

In the box: Kanai Lal Dark Color Sitar, Extra Set of Strings, Mizrabs, Trolley made of Fiber (with wheels).

Made by Kanai Lal & Sons in Kolkata. We tune and check every instrument in our Delhi workshop before it ships.

Open the packing as soon as it arrives so the instrument can air and settle into tune. Keep it away from direct heat and damp, and slacken the strings if you are storing it for a long period.