Fitted with 6 guitar strings, 13 sympathetic drone strings, and a buzzing Gotoh bridge, its guitar-like scale and neck couple familiar feel with the exotic tone of the traditional Indian instrument.

All 3 pickups (including the sympathetic-string pickup) have independent tone and volume controls.

A great axe for re-creating those psychedelic chestnuts of the '60s and for getting into modern world fusion styles.

How to tune the sympathetic strings: The gauge of the sympathetic strings is .010. and a harp wrench is used for the tuning process.

Traditional Tuning: The longest and lowest string is tuned an octave above the high E of a standard tuned guitar.

From there the strings are tuned in half steps.

This is just a starting point and experimentation can yield some beautiful sounds.

Another great tuning is to use a "dropped D" tuning (dropping the 6th E string down a full step to D) on the guitar neck; then the sympathetic strings would be tuned to a D7sus chord as follows (longest string to shortest string):D – same note as 1st string of the guitar neck fretted at the 10th fret (the 1st string is tuned to standard E) F# – ascending G – ascending A – ascending C – ascending A – ascending G – ascending F# – ascending G – ascending A – ascending C – ascending D – ascending D – same as previous note