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Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, 1918
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11261. CHIKARA ……………………………………… India
2An elaborately decorated example. Four bowed gut strings. Nine sympathetic strings.
3Length, 54 cm. Width, 11 cm. Depth, 8 cm.
51262. TAUS, or TAYUC. "Peacock-vina" ………………… India
6The wooden body is carved and painted to resemble a peacock. Belly of painted parchment. Four wire strings. Fifteen sympathetic strings. It may be played with a bow (carried in a receptacle in body), or plucked. The taus is also called mohur, and mayuri.
7Length, 114 cm.; of body, 29 cm.; depth, 19 cm.; width, 18 cm.
91263. ESRAR ……………………………………… India
10Body with deeply incurving sides. Parchment belly. Five melody strings. Fifteen sympathetic strings.
11Length, 116.7 cm.; of body, 25 cm.; width, 20 cm.; depth, 15 cm.
131264. SUR-SANGA ……………………………………… India
14Violin-shaped body. Parchment belly. Seventeen frets. Four wire strings. The sur-sanga is an esrar with no sympathetic strings. It may be played with a bow, or plucked.
15Length, 124 cm.; of body, 37 cm.; width, 22 cm.; depth, 7 cm.
171265. SARANGI ……………………………………… India
18Body in shape of an inverted key-stone. Three heavy gut strings (bowed) and one of copper wire. Twenty-four sympathetic strings. The body has an incurvation in the right side, and a rounded back.
19Length, 58 cm.; of body, 23 cm.; width, 16 to 24 cm.; depth, 16.5.
211266. SARANGI, or SARUNGI ……………………….. India
22Similar to preceding example but with eleven sympathetic strings only.
23Length, 52.3 cm.; of body, 23.5 cm.; width, 12 to 14 cm.; depth, 11.5 cm.
251267. SHARODE, or CARADIYA-VINA ………………… India
26Body of painted wood with parchment belly. Peg-box represents a bird's head. Five gut strings.
27Length, 91.2 cm.; of body, 27.9 cm.; width, 22 cm.
28Sharode is the Arabian name for a bass string. According to Sachs, quoting from Mefatih ol ulum, it resembles an instrument devised (912 A. D.) by the philosopher, Ibn Achwas es-Saadi, of Bagdad.9
309 Sachs, p. 369.
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