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Within You Without You, Indian music
4 Jun 2006 15:43:05 -0700
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richardfangnail...
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What instrument carries the main melody in the song (it's not a sitar)?
Orlando Enrique Fiol...
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Sarangi, a bowed stringed instrument with sympathetic strings.
richardfangnail...
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Ian MacDonald's book did not mention sarangi but it mentioned dilruba.
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dahldude...
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The dilruba is also a bowed stringed instrument with curved frets like
the sitar. Skin head, sympathetics, and the like:
Beautiful, no?
DanKaye...
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Looks similar to a mini sitar the way the strings are placed.
dahldude...
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Yeah, the only major diff is the hourglass shaped body (for the bow to
ramble) and the skin top (which is like the sarangi), The sitar has no
skin top. And I guess all those modernized machine heads - the sarangi
holds to the past with wooden pegs...
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Lewisohn mentions the dilruba, with later overdubbing by same.
And look at this mother of all tambouras:
I always wanted one of those droners...
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What Indian music CDs would sound like this Beatles song (preferably
with no vocals)?
Orlando Enrique Fiol...
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