Scan 178
Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, 1918
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11020. Vipanchi-vina ……………………………………… India
2Body of gourd with belly of wood. Neck and head of hard wood. Five strings run over sixteen adjustable frets to T-shape pegs, two in front and three at left side of the head. The carving on belly and the decorations on the gourd resonators are unique in conception and delicate in execution.
3Length, 127 cm.; of body, 28 cm.; width, 19 cm.; depth, 17 cm.
51021. Nadecvara-vina. "The loud-toned vina" …………. India
6Flat, violin-shaped body of wood. Six tuning-peggs, two on flat surface of neck and four on the side, draw an equal number of wire strings over one ivory bridge and sixteen adjustable frets. The shape of the body is indicative of European influence.
7Length, 123.7 cm.; of body, 28 cm.; width, 19 cm.; depth, 17 cm.
91022. Tamboura, or Sitar ……………………………………… India
10The body, of a large gourd with a flat wooden belly, is joined to a long neck, which tapers towards the head. From a projection at the base five wire strings run over the un-fretted finger-board to the same number of wooden tuning-peggs inserted in the sides of the neck. It corresponds exactly to no instrument described in the literature of the subject.
11Length, 114 cm. Width of belly, 25.5 cm.; depth, 22 cm.
131023. Cacha-vina ……………………………………… India
14Body of gourd with neck of elaborately carved wood. Five wire strings. Seventeen frets. Eight sympathetic strings run under a glass plate. Under the wooden belly is placed a second of tightly stretched parchment. The use of sympathetic strings is a very common procedure in India, as will be seen in Case XII.
15Length, 122 cm.; of body, 28.5 cm.; width, 25.5 cm.; depth, 13.5 cm.
171024. Sur-vaHara. "Beautiful toned" ………………… India
18Body of gourd. Belly and neck of dark brown wood. Five tuning-peggs, and same number of strings, running over fifteen frets. Eight sympathetic strings. Said to have been invented about the middle of the last century, by Gutam Mohammed, Khan of Lakhnau.
19Length, 152 cm.; of body, 45.6 cm.; width, 32 cm.; depth, 30 cm.
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