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Title	Sarangi with bow
Subject	Sarangi Sarangi music Musical Instruments Stringed instruments Music--India Musical instruments--India
Description	The sarangi, or Indian violin, is a classical stringed instrument common to north Indian music. Popularized in the mid-17th century, it was mostly played to accompany vocal music, but also as a solo instrument. It has no frets or fingerboard; the strings “float” in the air. It is very difficult to play—the right hand holds the bow while the left hand is used to determine the pitch by sliding the fingernail against the string rather than pressing against a fingerboard (like a violin). An accomplished sarangi player can imitate the sound of the human voice with his music. Because it is so difficult to learn and to play, few sarangi players remain and it is being largely replaced by the harmonium as an accompaniment to vocal music. This sarangi dates to the late 19th century.
Photographer	Kaveney, Wendy
Identifier	84.207.7.1-.2
Collection	Artifacts at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Coverage-Temporal	19th century
Rights	This file is licensed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

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Photographer	Kaveney, Wendy
Collection	Artifacts at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Rights	This file is licensed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

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