uhh electric sitar thingy...

[FireBall]

Check this out.. I have a hard time with two hands and six strings... ;D

www.thatnewsound.com/product_p/jerry-jones-master-sitar-green.htm

[sumgai]

You won't be changing any of those strings in a hurry, eh?

[ashcatlt]

ummm....

Guys?

You know you're not really supposed to play those strings, right? I mean, you can if you want, but...

I think the hard part would be not hitting them. I have trouble enough with the switch on my LP. Course, that's part of the reason I replaced it with a rotary...

[sumgai]

ash,

Those 'drone' strings won't sound out at all if you don't strum them once in awhile. A real sitar has no problem with resonance doing the job, it's body is huge by comparison. With this thing, the body is a) tiny, and b) made of something that I suspect would not achieve Runewalker's approval.

And in a sitar, all the strings are acoustic. On this electric thingy, if you depend on the body resonance to make the drone strings vibrate, then the volume level overall is gonna be unbalanced - the drones will sound out well below the volume of the main strings. That's assuming that the pickups are built approximately the same way for both sets. If the drone pup were to be way overwound to compensate, then that'd be one hot mama, no?

But as a piece of art hanging on a wall somewhere, it might not be so bad.



sumgai

[newey]

Let's see . . .Hmmmmm . . .

I can wire the drone pup OOP with the bridge pup, add a 6-way rotary switch to get series/parallel combinations of all three pups, install an active preamp/chorus circuitboard for the drone strings, and . . . . . .

Gawd, I'm excited