Sitar

Just curious as to if anybody here has ever played the sitar or taking any lessons. My guitar got stollen last week and I was thinking about buying a sitar instead of another guitar...... any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks Brock Graves

 

i have never played, but they play and sound beautifully..good like with that

 

i had one lesson. it didnt sound good

 

It's been about ten years since I played one, and all I really remember was that Sitar's aren't easy to play. It's stretched out like playing a six string bass, except the strings are way up off the "fretboard" and cut your fingers to all hell. Hell, even Hendrix tried to play one before throwing it down in disgust after only a few hours.

Better to get something like one of those Line6 guitars that have that sitar mode. Heard they sound pretty freaky amazing.

 

Sitar is not easy to play. I ahven't played one myself, but have done enough reseach to figure out that learning Indian music is only for some on who really has the desire and the motivation to. How did your guitarget stolen? Couldn't the same thing happen to a new instrument as well?

 

I was at a show and let someone borrow it. They didnt steal it they put it under a friends car in the morning and in like 2 hr time it got ganked! I have def. lost a lot of faith in the good of people

 

I have been playing sitar for 14+ yrs, and its the most challenging instrument I have ever encountered. To learn the scales and picking techniques takes years, if ever! Just sitting properly with the thing is a challenge at first, and I wont go into the problems with a live mic on your gourd!

I play a double toomba standard sitar, a fine instrument with bone and pearly inlay on a dark red gourd. The case for it is huge, better than five feet, and its such a fragile instrument I am kinda 'noid to try to use it in many live shows.

But it makes the most beautiful sounds, and is worth the price and effort to learn properly.

 

i have decided that when i tire of guitar i'm going to get a dulcimer, i don't have the talent for a sitar. no way. but i will listen of course.

 

you people are nuts. dont u know the only reason to pick an instrument is up is because it'll get you laid, and the sitar definetly doesnt do much for you in that reguard.

 

you got it all wrong brother.

 

i wanted to get layed more thats why i started playing banjo

 

can anyone put clips of them playing? i would like to hear some people play, like samson

 

I'll see if I can make some clips of tunes I have done with sitar. We used it alot for a time in the mid90s, and have some decent recordings from then...just gotta get em put on the comp. The funny part is, I am not even the best sitar player in our group!