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🦋 A gourd dilruba: proposal

A dilruba could be built with a gourd body. (note Not nearly enough tension to support a washtub construction, though.) The neck might be cherry -- the shape of it seems pretty easy to build, much much simpler than a sitar neck. (I am thinking here that the neck is not hollow, I'll need to check that.) Friction pegs for the tarif strings could easily be let in to the side of the neck with the string winding on the outside. The bridge will be maple and the nut cocobolo. Or a cocobolo bridge even! That could be made pretty thin.

posted afternoon of Sunday, December 16th, 2018
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Another idea -- neck could be a steel rod, with a sheet-metal surface attached. There would be a wooden cross-piece running under the neck surface at each sympathetic string endpoint, and wooden sides with the cross-pieces mortised in.

posted morning of January 27th, 2019 by Jeremy Osner

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