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From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india,net.music.classical
Subject: Tuning that old sitar you've got laying about
Message-ID: <334@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 16:07:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 16:07:48 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Jun-85 02:14:07 EDT
Reply-To: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
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The upshot of this recent discussion on Indian music is that I now have a
sitar at home that one of the Theory Center Secretaries brought in and
asked if I wanted to look at. THe instrument in question has 2 strings
mounted on pegs off the left side of the neck (like a banjo), another
2 or three strings, and then two strings set away from the others, along
with about 11 sympathetic strings underneath the bridge on a little bridge 
of their own.

So-how does one tune this instrument? I know that the intervals are not
precisely the same a the west's, but how about a ballpark idea. The design
of this thing intrigues me.

Gregory Taylor

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