Anyone know anything about the sitar?
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The Sitar is an ancient Indian instrument adapted from another ancient Indian instrument, The Southern Veena. It is constructed using a design over 600 years old.\nmade of a dried out pumpkin for the body, Tun or Sheasham wood for the neck, and a dried out gourd for the resonator at the top of the neck. The Sitar has 7 strings on the upper part of the body and 11 or 12 sympathetic strings under the frets. To allow the sympathetic strings to be under the frets and resonate, the curved nickel-silver frets are arch-shaped to allow for free resonation. All frets on a Sitar are moveable. They are held to the neck only with strings.There are a few variations on the design such as the single Sitar which does not have the sympathetic strings and the double Sitar, which does not have the gourd at the top of the neck.\n\nTo play the Sitar is similar to playing the guitar although there are a few variations in the styles of playing First, instead of using a pick, a Sitarist uses 2 mizrabs, which is a metal finger pick. One mizrab is placed on the index finger and the other on the pinky. Second, the sitting position of the Sitar is quite different from a guitar. Thirdly, the tuning of the Sitar is quite different. The fourth and most dramatic difference in playing is the Indian Music System which is very, very complicated and will just confuse the hell out of anybody who tries to make sense of it.\n\nThe sitar is a classical instrument of Northern India which has 19 strings, 20 frets and an amazing sound. Traditionally the instrument is taught using the old indian gurukul system, when a student lives with his teacher or guru for the duration of their training. There is a proverb that says a student of the sitar must spend 20 years learning, twenty years performing, and twenty years teaching the instrument to truly appreciate it. Modern technology, and a fascination with the instrument, spawning from the '60s and Ravi Shankar has created a breed of "self-teaching" sitarists who purchase books and videos about the instrument.\n\nOne of the most versatile instruments in the world, the sitar allows a musician a wide range of expression. Micro-tonal variation is very easy to create. The frets (the numerous bar like objects that cross the fingerboard (main part) of the sitar) are posable and are tied onto the instrument. Different ragas emphasize different positions, and the artist often sets the frets a little off normal to provide the micro-tonal.\n\nhow to make one is a different question
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/02/04/stories/1304067r.htm\n\nHope this helps you.
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Never heard of that,sounds real cool! Do you have a pic of it?? I would love to see that!!
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http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IR/8/Hendavanehye_Pordesar.html
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..Hi ...You can find the information in the link;)\nKind regards...
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This is a long shot but specifically mentions Indian literature, flying carpets, mercury and magnets: http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc161.htm\n\nHere is one other reference: http://www.jan-pajak.com/1e_pdf/1e_3.pdf
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Have you tried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page they have info about anything.
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You might find some info on http://www.indianidol.sifymax.in
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SITAR - The most popular instrument in North India today it has a long neck, twenty metal frets, and six to seven main strings with thirteen sympathetic strings running below the neck. The lower end of the neck has a gourd which acts as a resonator.\n\nThe guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a solo classical instrument. It is most recognized in popular culture as the primary instrument in blues, country, flamenco, pop, and rock music. The guitar usually has six strings, but guitars with four, seven, eight, ten, and twelve strings also exist. Guitars are made and repaired by luthiers.\n\nDifferent instruments sound different, even when they play the same notes at the same volumes, primarily because they add different amounts of harmonic tones to their fundamental tones and because these various tones change in volume with time. When you play a note on a guitar, you don't hear just one pure frequency with a constant volume. Instead, you hear the fundamental frequency and all of the integer multiples of that frequency--the harmonics of that frequency. The relative volumes of those harmonics, and how those volumes change with time, are characteristic of the guitar. If you listen to the same note on a sitar, the relative volumes of the harmonics will be different and you will hear the difference. Because both instruments are plucked, the sounds they emit both start loud and gradually grow softer. If you were to bow their strings, the sound would start soft and gradually grow louder.
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I think you mean the Mala with those brown coloured beads. I am not sure where you live. In India you would get it from ashramas/temples, etc. If you are somewhere in the Americas, EU, Latin Am or Australia; go to the respective ISKCON temple. They will help you. I think even Ramakrishna Math ( which is less popular) will have them.\n\nTry ISKCON\nwww.iskcon.com
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try this link for more information  http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/July232004/n9.asp
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I found one called Fton-Sangha-Talk.  I'm not sure if that could be it or not.\n\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fton_Sangha_Talk/\n\nI also found this one by searching for "Shambhala" at groups.yahoo.com\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/fton_shambhala_announce/\n\nI apologize if this isn't it and I have just wasted your time.  That's as close as I could find.
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ask any loca digha residents about it they might know about it
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yes it is true, coz the birth of sita was mentioned in Ramayan before the birth of Rama.
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I have heard of the naruq. Have you heard of the sedasurc? Or the lebib?
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NASA experiment a lot on this issue, maybe by login onto their site you'll find the info you're lookig for, luck..☺