sarangiArticle Free Pass sarangi, also called saran or saranga ,
short-necked fiddle used throughout South Asia, particularly for
folk and classical Hindustani music. Measuring about 76 cm (30
inches) long, the instrument has a roughly rectangular slightly
waisted body and broad fretless neck generally carved from a
single piece of wood. It has three melody strings made of gut,
usually tuned a fifth and a fourth apart, and 11 to 37
sympathetically vibrating metal strings. At least two convex
bone bridges are required to accommodate the three melodic
strings on top and the many vibrating strings below. The
musician, who is seated, normally holds the instrument against
his left shoulder in a vertical position and plays with an
arched bow held in an underhand grip in his right hand. The
cuticles (or sometimes the space on the fingernail just above
the cuticles) of the left hand are pressed against the strings
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