Dilruba!

Tuning a Dilruba (the beast below) when y're totally fucking stoned is not the easiest thing to do. It takes a really fucking long time to get all 20 sympathetic strings dead on, particularly if you go and make a cup of tea and forget how many of the bastards you've already fucking done. Mind you, it didn't (quite) take 3 hours, which was the amount of time a totally pinned friend of a friend once spent attempting to tune a guitar that was perfectly in tune in the first place before slowly sliding off the seat they were sat on.



When you do finally get the fucker in tune though, it sounds absolutely fucking amazing, a bit like a cross between a sitar and a sarangi, but more spectral than a sitar and more buzzing than a sarangi. And much, much louder. When I get round to putting a pick-up on the fucker and introducing it to the pedals it's going to be a whole lotta fun. For me anyway...