| David Schneider has been to India five times and studied with the late Hiren Roy and his son Himangsho Roy in their shop in Calcutta. They made instruments for Ravi Shankar and other well-known Indian musicians. David traveled all over India and studied different aspects of Indian instrument making, including sitar, tamboura, veena, swarmandala, ectars, harmonium, drum, sarungi, and sarod. |
| David will be creating a new line of Indian instruments made with premium tone woods which are unavailable in India. He will make tambouras out of curly maple and ebony, creating a blond and black instrument never produced before. Instead of using a gourd, he will use bent strips of exotic woods to form the gourd, similar to lute construction. |
| Schneider will also be developing crosses between eastern and western instruments such as acoustic sitar-guitars with working sympathetic strings, swarmandalas made from exotic woods, veenas using the bent strips of wood to form the gourds. He will also craft any custom design the customer desires. |
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