An online tanpura in E

E — safed teen — is the crossing point. High for most male voices, low for most female ones, it is the key where duets negotiate, where a teacher demonstrates for a student whose range is not theirs, and where voices that never fit the standard advice end up perfectly at home.

Because E gets sung from both directions, Sangat's two tanpura voices earn their keep here: the deeper one grounds a voice reaching up to E, the brighter one lifts a voice settling down onto it. Under both sit the same real plucks, at E exactly.

The whole tanpura is in the free tier: 18 tunings, three pluck styles, no account, no install. And if you suspect your true Sa is a neighbour of E rather than E itself, Find my Sa will listen and say so.