My girlfriend is learning the Dilruba, however; we are having difficulty in tuning it properly. Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you for your time and the sitar. A Hi Craig, glad you are pleased with the instrument. When one handles many of them one gets to take them well, a little for granted, so it’s great for me to have input from players like yourself. Dilruba. This seems to be becoming more popular and I sense a ‘gaining’ market for these, also Esraj. So much so that I am placing a sample order for a very large Esraj which will be here in about 3 months or so. I can’t wait to see this as it looks about 1-1/2 times the size of a regular Esraj. I think the tuning for Esraj is very similar to Dilruba. Ashwin Batish has a video that explains a great deal about Dilruba, including complete tuning of all strings, some nifty bits & pieces, exercises, and more. It is available for $39.95 plus $5:00 for shipping and I have this in stock. Meantime here are the tunings for the top 4 strings which I have taken down from this tape today: 1st string: Ma F below middle C 2nd string: Sa C octave below middle C 3rd str
