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Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, 1918
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11254. CAI NHI ……………………………………… Anam
2This is the most beautiful of the group. The neck and tuning-pegs are of ebony, inlaid in a floral design in etched mother-of-pearl. The bow, of bamboo, is strung with white horsehair.
3Length, 171 cm. Depth, 12.1 cm. Diameter of body, 5.2 cm.
51255. SHARODE. Unusual form ……………………….. India
6Carved from a single block of wood. Parchment belly. Four gut strings.
7The body resembles the rudra-vina, but the neck is much smaller. The stringing resembles the sharode. Nine sympathetic strings run from pegs on the side over the same bridge as the melody strings.
8Length, 82.6 cm.; of body, 19 cm.; width, 24 cm.; depth, 11 cm.
101256. SARINDA, SAROH, or CHIHIKONG ………………… India
11The body, with rounded back and deep incurvations on the sides, is carved from a single block of wood. A parchment belly covers the lower end only. Three gut strings fastened to a projection at the base run over a bridge resting on the parchment to tuning-pegs in peg-box. The neck is very short.
12Length, 54.5 cm.; of body, 32 cm.; width, 16.8 cm.; depth, 3 cm.
141257. SARINDA ……………………………………… India
15Body of gourd with super-imposed carvings of wood. Lower part of strings running over a high bridge of ivory. Five sympathetic strings.
16Length, 61.5 cm.; of body, 42 cm.; width, 22 cm.; depth, 17.5 cm.
181258. SARINDA ……………………………………… India
19Body of gourd with super-imposed carvings of wood. Lower part of the front covered with parchment. Three strings of wire and one of gut. Thirteen sympathetic strings.
20Length, 63 cm.; of body, 40 cm.; width, 27 cm.; depth, 19 cm.
221259. CHIKARA ……………………………………… India
23Pear-shaped body of gourd. Neck and scroll of European type. Wooden belly with violin sound-holes. Four bowed gut strings. Seven sympathetic strings. The native name of the bow is sargi.8
24Length, 54.5 cm. Width, 19 cm. Depth, 15 cm.
261260. CHIKARA ……………………………………… India
27Pear-shaped body with deeply incurving sides to admit of the free use of the bow. Parchment belly. Three bowed gut strings. Five sympathetic strings.
28Length, 56 cm. Width, 14.5 cm. Depth, 10 cm.
308 Sachs, p. 101.
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