billkilpatrick
Mar-06-2008, 8:45am
link below is a sight-seeing type video from south india with an unusual mandolin soundtrack - sounds fretless to me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svb3gfrzV_s
haven't found an image of the instrument yet but wikepedia supplied the following:
In Indian classical music and Indian light music, the mandolin, which bears little resemblance to the European mandolin, is likely to be tuned to E-B-E-B. As there is no concept of absolute pitch in Indian classical music, any convenient tuning maintaining these relative pitch intervals between the strings can be used. Another prevalent tuning with these intervals is C-G-C-G, which corresponds to Sa-Pa-Sa-Pa in the Indian carnatic classical music style. This tuning corresponds to the way violins are tuned for carnatic classical music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svb3gfrzV_s
haven't found an image of the instrument yet but wikepedia supplied the following:
In Indian classical music and Indian light music, the mandolin, which bears little resemblance to the European mandolin, is likely to be tuned to E-B-E-B. As there is no concept of absolute pitch in Indian classical music, any convenient tuning maintaining these relative pitch intervals between the strings can be used. Another prevalent tuning with these intervals is C-G-C-G, which corresponds to Sa-Pa-Sa-Pa in the Indian carnatic classical music style. This tuning corresponds to the way violins are tuned for carnatic classical music.