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Poll Question: Which is the best?
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This poll really needs to include The Inner Light.
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Uh...I hate to break it to you, but...Harrison didn't play sitar on Tomorrow Never Knows.  He played Tamboura.  And the instrument that sounds like a sitar is actually a tape loop provided by Paul.  So...AYHNNK!...TNK should be rmeoved from this poll.
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Make love all day long, make love singing songs...
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Originally posted by maani maani wrote:

Uh...I hate to break it to you, but...Harrison didn't play sitar on Tomorrow Never Knows.  He played Tamboura.  And the instrument that sounds like a sitar is actually a tape loop provided by Paul.  So...AYHNNK!...TNK should be rmeoved from this poll.


Granted there is not a lot of sitar in TNK but according to Ian Macdonald's "Revolution in the Head", Harrison did play the sitar on it.

It also says the same in Mark Lewisohn's "Complete Beatles Recording Sessions".


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Chopper:
 
Common mistake: some people think any drone-y sounding Indian instrument is sitar.  George played tambour, which is actually a drone, with only four tones (I think).  As noted, the sitar sound is a tape loop that Paul provided.
 
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Originally posted by maani maani wrote:

Chopper:
 
Common mistake: some people think any drone-y sounding Indian instrument is sitar.  George played tambour, which is actually a drone, with only four tones (I think).  As noted, the sitar sound is a tape loop that Paul provided.
 
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You may well be right Maani, but Lewisohn's book is derived from the official Abbey Road records. I assume the opening drone is the tambour, maybe there's some sitar in there as well that you can't really hear?
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I wandered around for a week, embarrassed that for all these years I did not know that sitar was used on TNK. Thanks Maani for clarifying that sitar was NOT used on TNK.
 
"Within You Without You" gets my vote.
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Lewisohn's book definitely states that Harrison recorded a sitar for TNK, however it does not say whether or not it made it to the final mix. My feeling is it probably didn't. I agree with Maani that the opening drone is a tambour, therefore I can only come to the conclusion that there is no sitar there.
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earlyprog, chopper:
 
I think we are all correct.  Harrison played tambour, but not sitar and, as chopper notes, it is possible that Harrison recorded a sitar, but they preferred the "sitar sound" loop provided by Paul and used that instead.
 
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Within You Without you and is also probably my favourite George song.
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