History
The instrument was developed in the late 1960s at Danelectro, when many western musical groups began to use the sitar. The sitar is generally considered a difficult instrument to learn. By contrast, the electric sitar, with its standard guitar fretboard and tuning, is a more familiar fret arrangement for a guitarist to play. The twangy sitar like tone comes from a flat bridge adding the necessary buzz to the guitar strings. The only problem with this arrangement is that the intonation of the frets is hard to manage. Chords don't sound as good. It is generally considered easy to play a melody, but the luxury of movable frets as in a sitar is missing on the electric sitar. Therefore, its design did not become very popular. It is now more of a curiosity item than a practical instrument.
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