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    Here's something we don't see every day.... It's bound to create a debate. I think it's sweet:
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    The kid's great!
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    Yeah, this guy has been discussed here before. Here are a bunch of threads about him.I can't listen to him.
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    WOW! Great footage! Wish I could see the name on the (ahem, 6 string, toy guitar) headstock.

    BTW, that kid is now in his 30s (40s?).

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    The instrument looks like some kind of small electric guitar to me. Pretty hot picker from an dissonant Eastern scale perspective.

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    Thanks for posting that.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by (pbabasin @ April 08 2008, 18:52)
    The instrument looks like some kind of small electric guitar to me. Pretty hot picker from an dissonant Eastern scale perspective.

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    Wow, that is neat! I think it is cool that the world shares music!
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    Six Strings, I counted... (too many for one hand)

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    Yeah- this blew me away!

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    that was pretty wild. what weird tones the kid was getting out of that mandolin. Looked like an electric mandolin to me anyways.

    what weird notes, I've always been amazed at Indian music. I wonder if a straight up G C D song of ours sounds weird to them?

    And I wonder why the kid kept looking up and looking around after every lick he did?

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    There are six tuners, but only five strings. It is not a mini-guitar, it's a Carnatic electric mandolin. Srinivas started with a conventional 8-string mandolin, had it redone for 5 strings, and took off two of the tuners. Why he didn't take off three tuners I don't know. Goodness knows how many instruments he's been through in his lifetime, but they've all been copies of this one, extra tuner included.

    There's a spot where the camera zooms in and you can clearly see "Sahmax" on the upper bass bout.
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    He has most notably played with guitarist John Mclaughlin in the group Shakti. In my opinion it's great stuff.

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    That kid sure is fast

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    Nice!!!!
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    I think I know why he left the tuner on. Sitars have "buzzing bridges" that add a mechanical buzz to the tone of the instrument. When I've played a guitar with only one string without a tuner, that tuner will vibrate like crazy sometimes, making that same sort of buzz. So maybe he's looking for that tone. Just a wild guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by (The Briggadier @ April 08 2008, 17:23)
    It's bound to create a debate.
    I think its wonderful too.

    I don't see any debate to have though. The mandolin can do it all!!
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    First record I ever purchased was Ravi Shankar playing the sitar, back in 1968, so I'm able to like this sort of thing. I think this guy is channeling George Harrison's "Within You Without You."

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    While I was watching this in my trance I had noticed that there are two guys and only 1 sitar in the background.

    Does it really take 2 guys to play a sitar?

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    Um. There aren't any sitars in this video.

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    What brand of instrument is he playing?
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    Quote Originally Posted by (delsbrother @ April 09 2008, 16:52)
    Um. There aren't any sitars in this video.
    What's that behind that kid?
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    Kinda puts me in mind of an Indian version of Scott Gates...

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    Quote Originally Posted by (8_String_Keith @ April 09 2008, 15:00)
    ... I had noticed that there are two guys and only 1 sitar in the background.
    One of the percussionists patiently waiting for his part, about 4 minutes into it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by (8_String_Keith @ April 09 2008, 18:12)
    Quote Originally Posted by (delsbrother @ April 09 2008, 16:52)
    Um. There aren't any sitars in this video.
    What's that behind that kid?
    A tambura.

    Nowadays you don't need any people to play the tambura - unless you count the person who turns on the digital version.

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    Right, that's how you know this is an old video -- there's a real tambura in it!

    I'm guessing he's 10 or thereabouts here?

    I like the theory about the extra tuner giving a little buzz to the tone. Naturally I would have asked him about this if I'd actually been allowed to interview him as planned.



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