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It is a bowed instrument scooped out of a single log of wood. There are three main playing strings of gut of varying thickness and thirty-seven sympathetic steel strings. It is played with a bow made of horse hair. Strings are stopped not by finger tips but by the base of the nails. Sarangi is used as a prominent accompaniment to vocalists in northern Indian classical music, and also for solo performance. BACK |
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