Last weekend I fitted the ivory jiwari on Chico’s sitar. It gave a noticeable warm and round sound…
Good old friend Chico is very proud with his new ivory jiwari. Now it’s up to him to test the durability of the material.
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Ivory Jiwari II
This upper jiwari has also been made out of the same piece of billard ball about 9 years ago.
Although this ivory is rather smooth, I have the impression that this jiwari sound lasts much longer than staghorn.
Ivory Jiwari
One day, a good old friend brought along an old and damaged billiard ball. It happened to be a real ivory specimen.
Why not to try to make a ghodi out of it ?
First step is to cut out a nice slice of ivory…
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Tanpura Restored
Eventually even the restoration of an anonymous tanpura gets finished…
Sound sample: Listen how it sounds !!
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