Originally Posted by Il Duce

one of my frens had one of these (veena/venu - something like a sitar but it's a Carnatic, not a Hindustani classical instrument) - I used to play it a lot but wasn't very good at it - i did a pretty good version of The Smiths' Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now on it in a school concert when I was 15, but only one or two in the audience was actually mesmerised by my playing and singing