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For those of you that may have seen the VC Tabla and VC Tampura that Cyndustries has for sale
(http://www.cyndustries.com/modules_tabla.cfm), fear not!  They are each a staggering $750 each!!!

These instruments are staples among many Indian and world music performers.  They are just funky
little dedicated sample playback units.

Cyndustries' VC Tabla is just a conversion of the easily obtainable Riyaz Master Pro Electronic
Tabla.  Buckingham Music is having a Christmas sale for $275 right now.  Pakrashi & Co. is selling
them for $190.  Quite a mark up for a conversion.  Here are 2 links with an MP3 sample:

     http://www.buckinghammusic.com/elect/elect.html#rt
     http://www.buckinghammusic.com/elect/masterpro.html
     http://www.pakrashi-harmonium.com/electronic-musical-instruments.html

Better pic of the FP Taal chart:  http://www.indianmusicalinstruments.com/taalchart.htm

Cyndustries' VC Tanpura is a conversion of the Ragini Pro Electronic Tanpura.  Pakrashi & Co. also
sells this for $190 (see the last link above).  There is also a more digital version availabe, but
I do not believe that is what they used for the conversion.  I may be wrong on this one since they
did not use any of the original panel, and I don't feel like taking the time to research it at the
moment.  Can also be written as tanbura.


Another good site to peruse is:

     http://www.jas-musicals.com/sectrad/Electronics-Instruments.asp

One company also continually posts these on ebay.

I suggest not messing with a conversion; just pick up one of the original (cheap) units and have
fun!

--Shemp




	
		
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