FTFY, now it's SSO Approved™!$60 isn't that bad. Or, at least, I thought it would be more than that. Heck, a pack of Kalium bass strings can run more than that.
With a zither, I think it's fairly common to restring only the fretted part and punt the replacement of the drone strings for another day. Or maybe I just think that because I'm lazy. I have owned the same sitar for more than 20 years and I'm rocking the same sympathetic strings that whole time. I've probably replaced the baj string maybe 50 times, and the djod string maybe 20. The drone strings maybe 3-4 times.![]()