Nadaka: Raga Guitar 

This is the instrument I have been looking for for all of my life.

As he start playing taanpura, I got goosebumps

His name is Nadaka. He lives in Portland, Oregon, USA. His website is ragamantra.com. See the caption above.

He is such a wonderful player. I still have cassette-tapes of him I found during a trip to India in the late 80's. I think he grew up in Auroville - What a charmed musical life!

Wonderful instrument, magically played. The whole video just flown by! Amazing work!

honestly i have never heard anything more beautiful in my life.

The ragam is called Revathi in south Indian classical music ... Very rejuvenating ragam .. like the sound of the guitar. Divine!!...

he is one of the best musician i have come across

You can tell he spent so much time in India as he lost his accent 😂❤️

This hi-breed is definitely a complete instrument for expressing Raga with better playing comfort than any other conventional Hindustani instrument. Modified steel guitar has entered into mainstream hindustani classical arena long before and now this one is also destined for same.

What an amazing work behind this instrument.

May Godess Saraswati Bless You!

Stunningly beautiful

If you have love, you can adopt every thing..........

The string that's off the fretboard is for playing djent.

"Detachment, free mind." Yes indeed

Tonal quality of this instrument is very nice like veena👌👌👌👌

What a lovely performance..too good sir... So beautiful.... Raag bairagi you played superb 👌 💐🙏💐🙏💐🙏💐

I first heard a sitar way back in the Super mario 64 days, I always loved the sound

SHAKTI natural elements , handful of beauty I'm sure you must have heard these great albums thanks for sharing namasté :)

deeply resonates me, fully

Hi, Amazing instrument and playing. Incredible sound. I'm a Portlander and new follower original from Puerto Rico.🇵🇷

Awesome bhairagi bhairav

Excellent experimental fusion resembling John McLaughlin style.

What a wonderful amalgam of Indian music with your own creative genius. I should like to know more about your "geetaar" and your playing it so innovatively to spell any audience. Thank you.

wonderful invention. congrats

It's beautiful!

Marvellous. A kind of short form Raga fusion style. Well done sir. Brought a big smile to my face. Oh, and what a fantastic creation this instrument is. Beautifully made too.

He starts playing finally at 4:44

super relaxing, amazing instrument, I enjoined a lot. Thank you

congrtas for the new dicovery ! Great Job !

As a guitarist with a growing interest in Indian music and different tuning temperaments, just wow, what a beautiful instrument, it also sounds divine, thank you.

awesome play and great guitar sound :)

Mesmering... beautiful.

Love the sound.. This is beautiful

simply amazing!!!!! mesmerized !!!

*_I believe the ancient Hindustanis/'Indians' somehow figured-out or intuited - or were 'taught'..... - the pristine vibration frequencies of the 'super-strings' from which our particular Universe is built ... what you are hearing here - is the mesmerizing symphonic harmonies of the most fundamental constituents of space-time...._*

Thanks for this. Very Interesting

Fantastic...love it!...ty

I WROTE JUST AND U PLAYED ......SUPERB--THANKS

subtle and lush

Amazing. God bless you

the guitar engineering looked impressive. the sound didn't feel quite like Indian Ragas. Something major felt missing. It just sounded like guitar. The drone sound and table was in the right direction.

Fabulous fusion harmony

wow just WOW!!!!

His compositions are great

want this so bad haha. its all i want in an instrument

This is the best explanation

I want to meditate to shiva on this music loved the bhairavi rag.

Superb feel like keep listening.

Wonderfully presented show !

Very nice and relaxing

Put a Western man playing an ancient music and almost instantaneously new instruments pop out.

great Invention.., It's Really Good...,

Around 03:45 Nadaka says, "In South of India .. we don't care as much about the time of the day for particular modes." On the contrary, i have found Indian music schools of music to be extremely fastidious about the modes played at specific times of the day, and even include considerations for the seasons and occasions apart from time of day. Maybe i misunderstood Sri Nadaka ji's context, but what i heard him say here didn't sound right.

super super Sir...i Love it ..Guruji....i love to learn...pls help me to learn....pleeeseeeeeeeeeeese..

Beautiful.

It was really great to hear... Do keep going... Wish u the best!

A great innovation, very good music and a great design! Good presentation. Thank you for the wonderful piece of music. I wish to buy this kind of guitar. How do I buy one Sir?

Very similar to John McLaughlin's Shakti-era acoustic guitar, most likely this guitar is based on it.

really good , this instrument is an evolution of the shakti guitar of the great john mc laughlin !

divine music. I was lost

Brilliant.. ! Only 16k views ? The world on internet today clearly has no music taste. This is in teen-taal right ?

Likes a bit of Phrygian dominant. Sounds nice

thank you regards

Superb invention

Tickles all of my musical desires...

Excellent 👍

great music....

Omg this is so good😳

Wow that's great 👍👍👍👍 😃😃😃

~cool...greetings from 2 musicians (sitar & tanpura) from germany........(maria&harald,the nectar of the night)...~

Beautiful music, playing and the instrument. Can anyone tell me? : Are all Raga guitars that expensive 6 or 7 thousand dollars? Are there guitars of this type available to buy at a much more budget price? I know one can experiment with a normal acoustic, doing some little cheap tricks to obtain a similar sound. The bottom line is- it will never be even close to one like this, even much cheaper model. Any comments welcome.

So nice

lovely !

Fascinating!

awesome.....

Where can one inquire about this style build Veena guitar?

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SIR GREAT ---THE GEETA BEFORE MAHABHARAT---CAN U PLAY JUST LITTLE BIT OF MUSIC FOR FIGHT DURING MY WEB EPISODE NO 24--PLEASE SIR

wonderful

Wah bhai wah

What is the name of this instrument? Can I buy it online???

How can I get this guitar. Please suggest me

Does anyone know who the luthier is that built this and if they are available for sale?

Without the slides and the pulls, how can this be a Raga? Sounds more like western music, rather than Indian. But amazing guitar :)

Cool guitar!

🇮🇳india❣️❣️💪💪

Depth of regga is soul

East meets West. Guitar's etymology surprised me

Nice, but are you sure that "geet taara" is the etymology of "guitar"? Most etymologies point to the Greek "kithara."

Amazing

Why not loop the tanpura?...

🙏

i want one!

D sharp harmonic minor - raag Bhairav I think, unless I am mistaken- very nice

Great!

incredible

Can someone please through a link to purchase it. Thanks

how would you tune that :/