piano tuning / Indian music scales...?

[Martin Czech]

:::For a good sitar sound, you need some drones going at a constant pitch, and 
then
:::lots of skilled pitch bend work. Some resonators would help. I'd get an old
:::autoharp, bolt a speaker to the bottom of it (underside) and then mic the top 
(or
:::use guitar pickups) to add the sympathetic vibrations. This was done on an
:::instrument called the Coral Electic Sitar (by Danelectro in the 60's) It has 
a
:::six string neck... and twelve drones beneath it that had a separate pickup 
and

I alsways thought that a major part of the sound is "snare", ie.
the strings touch something on the instrument body when exited.
Something similar to electro slap bass playing.
Is it a special bridge?

m.c.