Rain City Music

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About Rain City Music

Rain City Music is the creation of Lars Jacobsen and partners and friends in India. It is mainly an online source serving musicians interested in Indian Classical music worldwide. Online, we are open 24 hours a day however if you wish to come visit simply email or call and we'll be happy to give you directions and set up an appointment! I have long been involved with instruments from India, unofficially for a great many years since 1981 and then officially in 2001 when I developed Sitars Etc., which I ran for several years. A rather demanding day job at the time forced me to either close the site or let someone else run it. Fortunately I found someone with a great interest (Alex Salinas) but sadly he passed away in 2007. October of 2007 found me running Sitars Etc. again with the goal of purchasing it and I had assumed various numbers of instruments which were in production at the time. Had I not done so, the Srishti line of instruments would have ceased to exist. I didn't want to see this happen as my friends in India and I had worked very hard in the beginning to get things as perfect as possible. Sitars Etc. was phased out and now it's just RCM. Things have settled down over the years and I've adapted to the dynamics of business in this area. Teaching and repairs are now taking a lot more time. I have a handful of makers I've stuck with who are also wonderful friends of many years