John Pearse® Ebony & Rosewood Picks

Description

Traditional musicians in Northern India originally fashioned picks from coconut shell to play the Sarod, a multi-stringed fretless relative of the sitar and the rebab. In later years, the picks have been reduced in size and many players of the modern sarod have abandoned the coconut picks in favor of a new, more compact, pick made from ebony or rosewood.

European and American musicians traveling in India in the sixties brought these unique picks back with them and soon guitarists were discovering that they made superb picks for jazz! The tone that they produced was full and rich and immeasurably stronger than that produced by a celluloid, nylon–or even a tortoise-shell pick.

The exciting new DIMPLE and SAROD Picks from John Pearse® are handmade for us in India by craftemen who are expert in the fashioning of exotic woods. The DIMPLE has one side has a rounded depression for your thumb while the SAROD has the dimple on one side and the other has a curve just perfect for your index finger to hold the pick snugly and securely. They are made for Right Handed Players. We also now have FLAT EBONY and FLAT ROSEWOOD picks available. Use either Right or Left Handed or use them as a blank to carve your perfect pick.

Just hold one of the these painstakingly carved picks in your hand and hear for yourself the magic that has been concealed within your guitar.

Available in Ebony or Rosewood, and DIMPLE, SAROD or FLAT