tanpura

not difficult to play but hard to tune properly. so I am just posing here!
here is what it sounds like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVeFX4O4zT0

[JackieR]

Oh what a brilliant interpretation of drone!! Genius

[Domenico Dodaro]

This is the real toy! Why here? Sounds obnoxious? @kali66

[kali]

@domenicododaro hahaha Indian music grows on you, its meditative and good to sing with ... not that i do, this instrument just takes up space lol

[Domenico Dodaro]

@kali66 lol - I didn’t go farther than one Ravi Shankar’s sitar recording… enough to be threatened of corporal punishment by my highly insensitive wife soon after putting the record on the turntable 😂😂😂

[Saxa van Eijnsbergen]

What a beautiful instrument!

[kali]

@overalvandaan it is, the bottom part is a gourd!

[kali]

@domenicododaro try listening to his daughter Anoushka instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aWIuJGZHGU
absolutely love her album Rise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOSowP2p7vo&list=PLxbyugex66NtqvGtGyhgWbzNnTXjIJGPF