Can you say stringing nightmare?: http://www.chinatogalway.com/button%20copy.jpg
Somone has this thing up for trade over on the cafe classifieds.
Loren
Heh. Better that than a Portuguese guitarra. Same style of machine head, but SIX courses!
Holy…
Gaaaaackkk!!!
Loren
Here you go:
Hmm, maybe we flute makers should affix something like that tuning apparatus to flutes, that’d show those damn home tinkerers 
Loren
Kinda looks like it’s wearing a tiara, doesn’t it?
Not enough strings for you? I give you: THE THEORBO.
Slan,
D. 
Of course his fly’s open.
The Batak kercapi:
Andy Irvine´s nightmare:
Linda Manzer’s Pikasso guitar, made for Pat Metheny:
I understand it took two years to build.
and five months to tune.
Yeah, and people make cracks when I’m tuning my cittern. Ha.
Try your average 13/14 hammered dulcimer. . .54 strings…half of them you have to wrangle two notes out from. Sigh.
How many strings in a sitar?
An Indian sitar has
Talasiga adds,
Only three of the main playing strings are used for line work, the others are for drone and rhythmic effects.
Fundamentally, then, a sitar is a three melody line instrument, like the ancient persian setar from which it gets its name. The ancient Persian setar was a three string instrument and setar means three strings in Persian.
In this sense an Appalachian dulcimer is a setar/sitar also because it only has 3 string courses. It also has that lovely timbre like the Indian sitar when the latter is played in a gentle feminine style.
I shudder to think. At least everyone’d be more amenable to the idea of tuning to YOU.
Twenty on that baby there.
How about a Ukrainian bandoura (bandura)? How many strings does it have?
Five, isn’t it–four courses with only the highest paierd.