hello all,
or alternatively get hold of the Radel Digi-60 Electronic Tabla
available mail order all the way from Bangalore
tuneable tablas, programable and best of all, you can sync it to something
that is damn close to dinsync (that is it'll work 90% of the time)
cheers
paul b
sheffield
uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tentochi" <tentochi2003@...>
To: "MOTM" <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 2:51 AM
Subject: [motm] [OT] Electronic Tanpura and Tabla
>
> For those of you that may have seen the VC Tabla and VC Tampura that
Cyndustries has for sale
> (http://www.cyndustries.com/modules_tabla.cfm), fear not! They are each a
staggering $750 each!!!
>
> These instruments are staples among many Indian and world music
performers. They are just funky
> little dedicated sample playback units.
>
> Cyndustries' VC Tabla is just a conversion of the easily obtainable Riyaz
Master Pro Electronic
> Tabla. Buckingham Music is having a Christmas sale for $275 right now.
Pakrashi & Co. is selling
> them for $190. Quite a mark up for a conversion. Here are 2 links with
an MP3 sample:
>
> http://www.buckinghammusic.com/elect/elect.html#rt
> http://www.buckinghammusic.com/elect/masterpro.html
> http://www.pakrashi-harmonium.com/electronic-musical-instruments.html
>
> Better pic of the FP Taal chart:
http://www.indianmusicalinstruments.com/taalchart.htm
>
> Cyndustries' VC Tanpura is a conversion of the Ragini Pro Electronic
Tanpura. Pakrashi & Co. also
> sells this for $190 (see the last link above). There is also a more
digital version availabe, but
> I do not believe that is what they used for the conversion. I may be
wrong on this one since they
> did not use any of the original panel, and I don't feel like taking the
time to research it at the
> moment. Can also be written as tanbura.
>
>
> Another good site to peruse is:
>
> http://www.jas-musicals.com/sectrad/Electronics-Instruments.asp
>
> One company also continually posts these on ebay.
>
> I suggest not messing with a conversion; just pick up one of the original
(cheap) units and have
> fun!
>
> --Shemp
>
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