Gut or nylon strings

[hansi]

Has anyone tried using gut or nylon strings on sarod?

[pink]

For a long long long long time before Baba Allaudin Khan proposed and started using steel strings on the sarod.

Though I doubt if anybody who used gut regularly back in the day is on this forum...

[pink]

I guess the metal strings with their clear twangy sounds have an advantage over gut strings. Anyway the metal strings are hell on the knife edge sarod bridge, which is one advantage that nylon strings would have

[liza]

the reason for the afghani rabab becoming the sarode is because the gut strings of the rebab weren't able to hold a sustained note, okay for rhythmic afghani folk music, but not for indian classical music. the move to metal strings necessitated the need for the metal plate of the finger board as the metal strings would eat into the wooden finger board. this happened long before allaudin khan was born, otherwise he would have been the inventor of the sarode, which he wasn't. as for nylon strings, wouldn't they have too much stretch in them and what would be sacraficed in sound quality?

[shom]

I think playing meend on afgani rabab is not possible, as not only is the fingerboard made of wood, but it is also decorated with carvings, so u may end up breaking your nail trying to play a meend. The clear, bell-like sarod sound can only come with steel strings.


shom

[it solutioners]

Sarod is very near to the sarangi because there relation are connected to the Moghul empire when the great musicians so called "kalakar" use it as master instrument of there music. This instrument is one of the most foreign musical instruments in the world today. Its unique quality, emotional range and dynamics are unmatched by any other instrument. It was developed about 200-250 years ago in India, this art of Sarode playing a great role in today latest instruments. There is another instrument which is just like the sarod is called "RABAB", in pashto folk music rabab is used regularly the peoples enjoy it in there different occasions even though it is used at any place of there life.

[it solutioners]

In addition sorad and sitar have a great relationship, musicians can't play the sorad without sitar because it create a magical background on the listeners I would like to share a great example of these both instrument in this video. Please visit this link of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Live Sarod Concert in Atlanta 2007 enjoy the silence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOevzNn1fgY

[vinza]

I have enjoyed the silence before your this post, so thanks for the information that you have tried to share.