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Short-necked Lute (Sarangi), Northern India, 19th century

NMM 1187. Short-necked lute (sarangi), northern India, 19th century. A concert sarangi used to play Hindustani classical music. The performer sits cross-legged on the floor with the instrument held vertically in front of the player. The strings are stopped laterally with the fingernails of the left hand. Three gut, melody strings with two rows of sympathetic strings. Ornamented with bone trim and stylized flowers. Ex coll.: Rev. Emmons E. White, Manamadura, South India. Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979. Click on any image on this page to see a larger view.

Literature:  Thomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet, The Shrine to Music Museum Catalog of the Collections, Vol. II, André P. Larson, editor (Vermillion: The Shrine to Music Museum, 1982), p. 11.

Thomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet, M.M. Thesis, University of South Dakota, May 1983, p. 24, plate VIII.

André P. Larson, The National Music Museum:  A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 29.

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