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Dutar (Uzbek) – another Ebay "find."  Came with pretty severely warped neck that I had planed down by Stephen Owsley Smith.  Re-fretted with nylon in the traditional manner – 18 chromatic frets tied from one piece of nylon.  See photo for how this is done.

Tuned to a unison B2.