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<<Btw, the Sitar model now included in V2 (a sample is also featured on the page above) is not intended to be a model of an acoustic sitar, iirc, but a model of an electric guitar that has a special bridge which electronically provided a sitar-like tone (I've seen this instrument played before, specifically by Dean McGraw, but cannot recall the name at the moment).>> That sounds like the Coral Electric Sitar, which was designed by studio guitarist Vinnie Bell, and was built during the late 60's. It's been used by a lot of people, like Steve Howe uses one a lot (he uses it on Yessongs like To Be Over, Close To The Edge, Ritual, and Siberian Khatru, as well on his solo records), Steve Vai, Pat Metheny, and I think I once saw a live clip of Genesis playing I Know What I Like where you can see Steve Hackett playing one (though Mike Rutherford is credited with playing it on the studio version). It's been used on a lot of songs over the years, a couple that that stick out in my mind is Everytime You Go Away by Paul Young (and if you remember the video for that song, his guitarist is shown playing a Coral Sitar in it), and Steely Dan's Do It Again. And the intro to Metallica's Wherever I May Roam also has a Coral Sitar on it. George Harrison apparently was given one of the very first ones (probably because he played a huge role in it's creation, because he and Brian Jones set off the "raga rock" thing in the mid 60's, which mandated that studio guitarists all over NYC and LA had to either learn how to play sitar, or else come up with a reasonable facsimile, this being Vinnie Bell's version of the latter), but it got hijacked by one of his friends, by the time he got it back (something like 18 months later) "everyone had one" so he never actually got around to using it on anything. The main things that set the Coral Sitar apart from regular guitars was the 13 drone strings that were mounted above the regular guitar strings, and the bridge, which was basically a piece of hard rubber that gave the instrument it's twangy buzz. There were always two problems with the Coral Sitar: 1. Because of the way the bridge it set up, it's nearly impossible to get the intonation right 2. They were only made for a couple years, ending in like 69, so they were always hard to get ahold of. Finally, in the early 90's, I believe, a guy in Nashville named Jerry Jones not only basically reproduced the original instrument, but also fixed most of the intonation problems. I believe he calls it something like the Baby Electric Sitar or something like that, and offers models with and without drone strings. ===== May you never thirst! The Scuba Diver Presently Known As Chris "What do you get when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"-James Earl Jones __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/