Add an Asian vibe without the learning curve!

Fitted with 6 guitar strings, 13 sympathetic drone strings, and a buzzing Gotoh bridge, its guitar-like scale and neck couple familiar feel with the exotic tone of the traditional Indian instrument. All 3 pickups (including the sympathetic-string pickup) have independent tone and volume controls. A great axe for re-creating those psychedelic chestnuts of the '60s and for getting into modern world fusion styles.

How to tune the sympathetic strings: The gauge of the sympathetic strings is .010. and a harp wrench is used for the tuning process.

Traditional Tuning:

The longest and lowest string is tuned an octave above the high E of a standard tuned guitar. From there the strings are tuned in half steps. This is just a starting point and experimentation can yield some beautiful sounds.

Another great tuning is to use a "dropped D" tuning (dropping the 6th E string down a full step to D) on the guitar neck; then the sympathetic strings would be tuned to a D7sus chord as follows (longest string to shortest string):

D - same note as 1st string of the guitar neck fretted at the 10th fret (the 1st string is tuned to standard E)
F# - ascending
G - ascending
A - ascending
C - ascending
A - ascending
G - ascending
F# - ascending
G - ascending
A - ascending
C - ascending
D - ascending
D - same as previous note

Rogue STR-1 Pro Electric Sitar Guitar Features:

• 6 guitar strings with guitar-like neck
• 13 sympathetic drone strings
• Special Gotoh bridge
• 3 pickups with independent tone and volume controls

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Rogue STR-1 Pro Electric Sitar Guitar

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Setting up the Sitar

Posted by Brian Tourville from New Paltz, NY on Mar 19, 2009

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Muscian

Reviewer's Play Style: Whatever

Dial in as much of the instrument as possible - gauge strings & neck adjustment if necessary.

Get at least one or two strings buzzing the Sitar sound you desire via crude adjustments.

Take the instrument to a Machine Shop - who do fine Machine work rather than engine rebuilding.

Ask them to shave the Bridge runs so that all the strings are buzzing correctly rather than the one or two you have for illustration.

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I only have one complaint; this thing...

Posted by JackB55555 from Redding, CA on Mar 10, 2009

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Blues, Fusion

I only have one complaint; this thing goes out of tune like a son of a b!^@#. You can't play any chords past the seventh fret without it sounding out of tune. I haven't had a lot of time to mess around with it, so I don't know if there's anyway to fix it or not, but if you can figure out how to fix that one problem, it's totally worth the money.

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No complaints

Posted by JasonG from St louis on Nov 26, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: 16 years as a hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: many

This is a deal if you understand what you are buying. There are some design flaws like in the Vinnie Bell modal but it is your only option if you want "that sound" that is on so many classic recordings. The break angle at the nut is bad which is one of the reasons tuning is a problem. The other reason is that the top is not braced. The top does sink in but its plywood and can take the pressure. I think the tuners are great and not the cause of the tuning problems. I took a 5/8's dowel and made a put it under the bridge to couple the top and back. The way I cut it the back does not arch much at all, I took off all the strings to replace them the rod stayed in place so I guess I got it right. The bridge is more stable and the 13 sympathetic strings ring more. I can't believe I have not seen that trick before it helps a lot IMHO.

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Super low quality

Posted by Slotracer from Seaside, OR on Nov 21, 2008

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: pro full time musician

Reviewer's Play Style: blues, jazz, rock, latin jazz, country rock, funk

My biggest complaint with this instrument is it's extremely low attention to detail in quality. The machines are off to the side and my E string kept slipping off the nut. The sympathetic strings are totally useless. The buzz bridge is totally inconsistant from one string to the next. It seems to me that the only thing on this instrument that sets it apart is the Gotoh buzz bridge. But even that is a P.O.C. when you attempt to have all 6 strings buzzing evenly. I'm sure one could easily make their own buzzing device. Ok, inventors out there! Makes us one with individual strings adjustments and maybe even a lever that swings it away for no buzzing when a sitar simulation isn't called for.

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Good Luck!

Posted by Bezmotivnik from California on Oct 31, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Former Pro

Reviewer's Play Style: Alternative

I think the biggest problem with this instrument is that it is a copy of the original Coral rather than a more advanced design using newer tech, particularly better buzz bridges. I have been trying for two weeks to get the sitar effect to work evenly, or at all, over all six strings. I have found no one else on the net who can do this either. The buzz effect just won't work right on the outer E strings. The center strings sound fine, but the outer ones can't get the proper string angle at point of contact. The Gotoh bridge is just one piece of plastic with no individual string adjustments where adjustment is critical.

The drone strings are hard to keep in tune, have little pickup output and are of little practical use.

To have nineteen strings with only four that work properly is not success.

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