Tutorials

Setup and maintenance guides, put together by players with more than twenty-five years in Indian music. The sitar buying guide works through what to look for in wood, gourd and workmanship; the repair videos cover harmonium tuning and tabla reheading step by step; and there are tuning charts for sitar and sarod.

Musician’s Mall began as the store of the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, and most of what is written here comes out of decades spent setting up instruments for its students and teachers.