Sarangi

Date:: ca. 1865

Geography:: India

Culture:: Indian

Medium:: Wood, parchment, ivory, gut, metal

Dimensions:: L. 24 ×W. 7 in. (61 × 17.8 cm)

Classification:: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted

Credit Line:: Gift of Miss Alice Getty, 1946

Accession Number:: 46.34.43

Not on view

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 wood. The four playing strings on this instrument are made of goat gut, and the seventeen sympathetic strings are made of steel. The sarangi is used throughout India and has some regional variations, but it is a particularly important part of the Hindustani music of North India.

Henry Harrison Getty ; Alice Getty

Timelines
South Asia and the Himalayan Region, 1800-1900 A.D.

Department

Musical Instruments (5,305)

Object Type / Material

Musical instruments (5,346)

Geographic Location

Date / Era

A.D. 1800–1900 (108,740)

Sarangi

Artist: Date: ca. 1900
Accession Number: 1982.143.2 Date: ca. 1900 Medium: Wood, ivory, parchment, metal Accession: 1982.143.2 On view in: Gallery 684

Taūs (mayuri)

Artist: Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 89.4.163 Date: 19th century Medium: Wood, parchment, metal, feathers Accession: 89.4.163 On view in: Gallery 684

Sarangi

Artist: Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 89.4.200a, b Date: 19th century Medium: Wood, metal, parchment, horsehair, mother-of -pearl, ivory, paint Accession: 89.4.200a, b On view in: Gallery 684

Sitar

Artist: Murari Adhikari (Indian, Calcutta 1934–2006 Calcutta) Date: 1997 Medium: Teak, ebony, metal, bone, various materials Accession: 1999.399 On view in: Gallery 684

Sō Sām Sāi

Artist: Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 89.4.300 Date: 19th century Medium: Coconut, skin, ivory, mother-of-pearl Accession: 89.4.300 On view in: Gallery 684