Calcutta standard model, instrumental, 4 strings
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Female Tanpuras have a rounded pumpkin resonance body, four strings, a total length of 120 to 130 cm and are used in Indian music particularly for accompanying female singers. With their timbre and their typical tuning around G they are in the middle between male and instrumental tanpuras
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Female Tanpuras have a rounded pumpkin resonance body, four strings, a total length of 120 to 130 cm and are used in Indian music particularly for accompanying female singers. With their timbre and their typical tuning around G they are in the middle between male and instrumental tanpuras

Fibre Cases available with all models: prices inclusive of fibre cover

Female Tanpuras have a rounded pumpkin resonance body, four strings, a total length of 120 to 130 cm and are used in Indian music particularly for accompanying female singers. With their timbre and their typical tuning around G they are in the middle between male and instrumental tanpuras

Fibre Cases available with all models: prices inclusive of fibre cover

Female Tanpuras have a rounded pumpkin resonance body, four strings, a total length of 120 to 130 cm and are used in Indian music particularly for accompanying female singers. With their timbre and their typical tuning around G they are in the middle between male and instrumental tanpuras

Fibre Cases available with all models: prices inclusive of fibre cover

Female Tanpuras have a rounded pumpkin resonance body, four strings, a total length of 120 to 130 cm and are used in Indian music particularly for accompanying female singers. With their timbre and their typical tuning around G they are in the middle between male and instrumental tanpuras

Fibre Cases available with all models: prices inclusive of fibre cover

Male tanpuras correspond to the female ones in their style, but they are considerably bigger and more voluminous with a total lenght of around 140 to 150 cm. With their powerful rich sound they are especially suitable for lower tunings around C and are traditionally used for accompanying male singers.
Fibre Cases available with all models: prices inclusive of fibre covers

Male tanpuras correspond to the female ones in their style, but they are considerably bigger and more voluminous with a total lenght of around 140 to 150 cm. With their powerful rich sound they are especially suitable for lower tunings around C and are traditionally used for accompanying male singers.
Fibre Cases available with all models: prices inclusive of fibre covers

Male tanpuras correspond to the female ones in their style, but they are considerably bigger and more voluminous with a total lenght of around 140 to 150 cm. With their powerful rich sound they are especially suitable for lower tunings around C and are traditionally used for accompanying male singers.
Fibre Cases available with all models: prices inclusive of fibre covers

Male tanpuras correspond to the female ones in their style, but they are considerably bigger and more voluminous with a total lenght of around 140 to 150 cm. With their powerful rich sound they are especially suitable for lower tunings around C and are traditionally used for accompanying male singers.
Fibre Cases available with all models: prices inclusive of fibre covers

Male tanpuras correspond to the female ones in their style, but they are considerably bigger and more voluminous with a total lenght of around 140 to 150 cm. With their powerful rich sound they are especially suitable for lower tunings around C and are traditionally used for accompanying male singers.
Fibre Cases available with all models: prices inclusive of fibre covers

It is usually not really a pleasure to be travelling with a male and a female tanpura. The pumpkin corpus is so voluminous and bulky and on top of it very fragile. As a result, various new shapes have been developed in the last few years, which are characterised by a more compact design and a sturdier construction, but have the same good sound qualities as the traditional models. In some models the pumpkin corpus has been substituted by a flat wooden corpus. The instrument keeps the traditional shape with round corpus and a long hollow neck, but the corpus is not rounded but flattened and a lot more stable. But in the meantime also a completely new construction has been tried and tested, which has given up the separation between neck and corpus. Instead, the instrument consists of a long wooden corpus in one piece which narrows towards the peg end - so the result is a kind of drop shape. The length corresponds to the traditional tanpura, the width and depth, however, are considerably reduced. The model is available either with a guitar mechanism or with wooden pegs.
Fibre Cases available with all models: prices inclusive of fibre covers
Fibre Cases available with all models: prices inclusive of fibre covers