the dillemna is continuing... as much as I really love the tone of the 3 and 4th course tuned to fifths- -they began to start irritating when it
comes to playing a recognisable makam...
however, the 3 and 4th courses, tuned in unison, are proving really tough to get a very nice resonant tone with the strings I have - for example, for
the 3rd course which normally is the thickest nylon, using nylon is fine but a bit lifeless. Using very thin plain steel (as I am with great success
on the 2nd course) is sucking on the 3rd course. I have now found some success with plain bronze sitar wire as a double course, however the guages I
have are just slightly too thick..... I would need to order some slightly more thin wire to really know if this can sound great or not. At the
moment, with slightly too heavy sitar wire, it sounds pretty good but not great.
As much as anything it is also a musical dillemna. Going for the parallel fifths give a very very unique and very rich tone - BUT it definitely leads
the music away from the traditions. To make this work would require inventing a new way of playing...
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