Dilruba

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[Kaurr]

Dilruba is one of the most beautiful sounding saaj. 

It's really hard to learn to play. It took me a good couple of weeks until I could make a decent sound out of it. It takes months to be able to play properly.

And your back and finger get very sore afer a while when you first start.

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10 hours ago, Kaurr said:

Dilruba is one of the most beautiful sounding saaj. 

It's really hard to learn to play. It took me a good couple of weeks until I could make a decent sound out of it. It takes months to be able to play properly.

And your back and finger get very sore afer a while when you first start.

That's amazing how you can play it,  where do you have your lessons? 

[Kaurr]

19 minutes ago, puzzled said:

That's amazing how you can play it,  where do you have your lessons? 

We have this acadmy thingy at the gurdwara. I recently bought one a couple of months ago.

It's hard to play it at first but it sounds really good after some practice.

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4 minutes ago, Kaurr said:

We have this acadmy thingy at the gurdwara. I recently bought one a couple of months ago.

It's hard to play it at first but it sounds really good after some practice.

That's great   did you buy it from India? 

 

[Kaurr]

3 minutes ago, puzzled said:

That's great   did you buy it from India? 

 

It was shipped with a lot of others

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10 minutes ago, Kaurr said:

It was shipped with a lot of others

Ohh ok 

[Kaurr]

5 minutes ago, puzzled said:

Ohh ok 

If you get the chance to learn it, I highly recomend it. For raag kirtan, any saaj will sound several times better than the harmonium.

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5 hours ago, Kaurr said:

If you get the chance to learn it, I highly recomend it. For raag kirtan, any saaj will sound several times better than the harmonium.

I don't think iv ever seen anyone playing a Dilruba here lol   though I'm sure some people do. 

Instruments linked to our ithiaas should be kept alive.

Harmonium made it's way into india through the white christian missionaries back in the 1800s  so it's a bit ironic that Sikhs use harmonium in kirtan!