Re: droning questions

[Tim Nelson <tcn62@ici.net>]

At 11:06 PM 3/30/01 +0100, you wrote:
>there was a thing calling itself an electric sitar with 12 sympathetic
>strings under a Perspex cover and a sitar type bridge. Tuning of the extra
>strings was done with a sort of autoharp/dulcimer key. 

That's the exact arrangement of the original Danelectro Vinnie Bell Coral
electric sitar, and subsequently the version made by Jerry Jones that was
based on it, which you can see at
<http://www.jerryjonesguitars.com/Master%20sitar.htm>. 

Danelectro also made a cheaper version that had no sympathetic strings that
looked like this Jerry Jones model:
<http://www.jerryjonesguitars.com/Baby%20sitar.htm>.