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The sitar made its way into rock music when The Beatles sought new inspiration during their trip to India. For the Woodstock generation, the buzzing, hypnotic sound was the perfect fit, and the ‘coral sitar’ became the instrument of the moment, offering a much more manageable alternative to the traditional sitar. Its guitar-like fretting made it considerably easier to play, too! The Danelectro Sitar brings the flower power sound back to life, with buzzing tones, including the essential ‘drone’ strings. This reissue stays true to the original, delivering strong, characterful sounds. A unique feature of the electric sitar is the 13 unfretted yet resonating drone strings, which significantly shape the instrument's distinctive, subliminal sound. The six main strings and the drone strings offer limitless tuning possibilities.
Danelectro Sitar Overall I’m really pleased with my Danelectro Sitar/Guitar, but in spite of the obvious similarities with a standard guitar, it’s quite a different experience in terms of its response and playability and takes a quite while to get used to. I think it’s best to consider it a completely different instrument and discover a whole new way of playing and a new repertoire of music to play. I was advised to change the strings to a set of flatwounds and that has improved the sound and playability. The 13 sympathetic strings are conventionally tuned chromatically E to E (starting from a 1st string octave E), but as the strings are all the same gauge you can experiment by duplicating notes, reversing the notes or whatever takes your fancy. They’re quite fiddly to tune, but retain their pitch quite well. Some also recommend retuning the main strings too, particularly dropping the low E to a D.
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