Sarangi

Indian

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A sarangi is a bowed stringed instrument with a skin-covered resonator. The typical sarangi is made by hand, usually from a single block of tun wood. The playing strings are usually made of goat gut, but on this example the top two strings are metal. This small sarangi is unusual in that it does not have sympathetic strings.

Sarangi, Wood, metal, parchment, horsehair, mother-of -pearl, ivory, paint, Indian

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Sarangi, Wood, metal, parchment, horsehair, mother-of -pearl, ivory, paint, Indian
Sarangi, Wood, metal, parchment, horsehair, mother-of -pearl, ivory, paint, Indian
Sarangi, Wood, metal, parchment, horsehair, mother-of -pearl, ivory, paint, Indian

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