Excerpt from the album Call Of The Valley featuring Brij Bhushan Kabra on lap style slide guitar . He plays a Gibson Super 400 guitar with an added drone string and according to Guitar Player Magazine interview its strung with unwound bronze strings , the 1st string being the main playing string , the 2nd tuned a fifth , the 3rd and 6th string are tuned the same as the 1 st string , the 7th string mounted on the side is tuned ocatve higher and the 4th and 5th strings tuned according to the mode or raga. The bridge and nut are raised . He plays with wire plectrums The other players on this recording were – Shivkumar Sharma -Santoor , Hariprasad Chaurasia – flute and Manikrao Popatkar – tabla.

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12 thoughts on “India’s Slide Guitar Master.”

  5. LitoGafik
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    Life is good – finding all these exquisite nuggets. I found the CD at HMV in the 90´s, but I still have a high-speed recording of it on tape from my friend´s LP….

  6. hitmanlad
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    He Harshaar, I can’t find anything on wiki about Manik Rao Popatkar. Can you point me to the link?

  7. harshaare
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    there is biography of him on wikipedia sir.

  8. cjnavaneet
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    It’s in the ‘1000 Albums you must hear before you die’ List 

  10. digitalpain1
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    This is something out of the world, totally different from the west 🙂

  11. TimothyCampling
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    I have probabely never heard better music than this

  12. Ishana98
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    Great Tabla by The Great Pt. Manikrao Popatkar-Ji!

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