While learning the art of Raag music my obsession with the music grew alongside a fascination for the sound of sitars and for their making. Since many years I have my own workshop in Jena and I optimize my own instruments and restore old sitars for a new life. Instruments with heavy internal issues like warped necks etc. I pass on to my friend Klaas of sitarfactory in Belgium -a highly skilled expert. A bunch of very unique instruments will be documented on this site: some of my personal collection and some which are for sale.
This sitar might be from the first generation of sitars with a full set of taraf strings and it is certainly one of the oldest sitars on the planet in playable condition.
A full decoration kharaj-pancham sitar made presumably in the late 1970ies by Hemen himself.
A Hiren Roy Sitar from the collection of luthier and sitar enthusiast late Dieter Zarnitz. According to Dieter it was made in 1957.
A Hiren Roy Surbahar ordered around 1988 by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan for his North-American disciple sitar player late James Pomerantz.
This sitar comes from a lesser known sitar maker from Kolkata.