Hi,
I need to get some jawari work done. I am in the Ottawa, ON, Canada area. I have a groove under the Ma string after 5 months. If there is someone within a 4 hour drive radius it would be great.
There is a wonderfull article about about the jawari process written by Thomas Marcotty, and I believe it is on the net in a few places. I don't think Canada has much to offer for people who do jawari, here in the US there is tons of people who know it. So my opinion, is try it yourself, its worth a shot, if you take it slowly you can't do any damage so to speak.
Beenkar Ted Ceplina
Hey Ted,
I am going to houseofraga.com on the 22th of Nov or so and I hope to pick up a few bridges to practice with. I think I will have to learn since I play a lot. That is the only thing so far (maintenance wise) that I cannot do myself. Sounds like fun anyway. I'll look around for the article.
Thanks Matt,
printed it just in case it disappears. I'll pick up 4 or 5 bridges to play with. I'll try to get a synthetic bridge or two. Should be fun.
for jawari work i think you should try coming here to toronto, my dad used to commute from ottawa (where i lived) to toronto and it took him 4-5 hrs. There's lots of stores you can try like house of raga, kala kendar, etc. Just come by and you can get the jawari work done if you cahnge your mind and decide not to do it yourself.
Seriously, you are better off doing it yourself, after all what if you are traveling and you need jawari done, where do you go then? Teach yourself, and you have someone to do jawari for life.
Beenkar Ted Ceplina
Hey Rohit,
I'm going to be in toronto on Nov 22-24th. I have spoken with Mr. Singh from house of raga and I am looking forward to seeing what he has. He doesn't have time to do the jawari though, so I plan to buy several bridges to learn how.
Hey Beenkar, you are right, I think it will be cool to do it myself, and this will be a continual need anyway. So, I will get a second sitar and teach myself jawari.
Hiya PB.
I just attempted fixing the same problem on my MPS. What I did was put a pencil mark in the goove itself. Then I used a very sharp paring chisel and scraped until the pencil mark was gone. I also used a very fine file a little. Its not perfect but it sounds better than the dead skrinking sound it was making before. I'm lucky enough to have an extra bridge made just for this sitar, but I wanna save it until I really need it. I'm guesstimating that I'd have to go through about a dozen bridges to learn this properly but I could be very wrong about this. It could very well take 50 or more.
Jeffrey R King
Hey Jeff,
Cool. You are brave chisling your mangla! You have a back up so, it is safe. Maybe I'll do something like that. I'll read that article posted by Matt and see what my next step is.
I remember my first time doing jawari was on the old Bina brand sitar I fixed up. I bought a couple new jawari from Mid-East, and remarkable I somehow got a good tone. But later on, I started to get more picky, and that bridge got filed away. .hehe But I think I have a bit of a knack for it now, but as far as rudra veena jawari go, I really got the hang of it. Probably because I play bina, so I know the exact tone, and contour that I need. I actually use wood files with chalk rubbed on them, and for the delicate work a chizle. Basically get your chickari strings done first, and after that, don't even think about filing near them. It just trial and error, and eventually you find good results. Lets put it this way, jawari is just as much of an art form as music, it takes lots of practice.
Beenkar Ted Ceplina
