Rick Waters

Rick Waters

Rick Waters is an American musician whose track ‘United in Dance’ reached #2 on the Billboard
Dance Charts in 2019. He has always had a keen interest in sitar music and the sitar starting when he first heard the Beatles Revolver album which featured the playing of George Harrison. He then learned about Ravi Shankar. He visited the famous Music Inn in Greenwich Village, NYC which had an enormous selection of sitars. Rick spent time with a sitar player while there and learned all about the instrument which inspired him to assemble Sitars.net. Rick now enjoys listening to classical Indian ragas such as Raga Puriya Dhanasri, Bhimpalasi, and Charukeshi, incorporating sitar sounds into dance music through his group SmashNGrab and of course writing about the sitar. He enjoys building this website along with his friend
Manoj Verma from Uttar Pradesh. 
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Shoppers can buy sitars online through standard sites like Amazon.com or Ebay.com which offer a combination of both new and used sitars but some may argue that the sitar for sale on these sites may not be the best quality. So it is often suggested to shop at specialty online stores devoted to musical instruments, mainly sitars. Some online sites to consider:

Rain City Music : Sells new and used sitars in addition to sitar accessories, dvd’s, cd’s, and repair services. Rain City Music is located in Washington state in the USA and receives high quality made sitars from India and offers custom-made services. Sitars sold through this site can run well over $1,000 US Dollars.

TablaSitar.com : Their mission is to offer quality musical instruments, most sourced from India, at affordable prices. Shoppers can navigate to their Buy Sitar page to view available sitars, most of which are between $400 – $800 US Dollars.

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Buying Guides and Store Guides

Stores that shoppers can visit to buy sitars can be difficult to find in the US but GaramChai.com is a website that offers a collective list of sitar stores within the United States.

Another useful resource for shoppers is the Sitar Buying Guide available at Sitarsencat.com which informs individuals how to inspect and test each part of the sitar before purchasing. Shoppers considering a used sitar should also review the Used Sitar Buying Guide at the Ali Akbah College Store.