Scan 227
Catalogue of the Stearns collection of musical instruments, 1921
36 lines. Read by computer on 22 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
11258. SARINDA …………………………………………….. India
2Body of gourd with superimposed carvings of wood. Lower part of the front covered with parchment. Three strings of wire and one of gut. Thirteen sympathetic strings.
3Length, 63 cm.; of body, 40 cm.; width, 27 cm.; depth, 19 cm.
51259. CHIKARA …………………………………………….. India
6Pear-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.12
7Length, 54.5 cm.; width, 19 cm.; depth, 15 cm.
91260. CHIKARA …………………………………………….. India
10Pear-shaped body with deeply incurving sides to admit of the free use of the bow. Parchment belly. Three bowed gut strings. Five sympathetic strings.
11Length, 56 cm.; width, 14.5 cm.; depth, 10 cm.
131261. CHIKARA …………………………………………….. India
14An elaborately decorated example. Four bowed gut strings. Nine sympathetic strings.
15Length, 54 cm.; width, 11 cm.; depth, 8 cm.
171262. TAUS, or TAYUC. Peacock-vina ……………………. India
18The wooden body is carved and painted to resemble a peacock. Belly of painted parchment. Four wire strings. Fifteen sympathetic strings. Sixteen frets. It may be played with a bow (carried in a receptacle in body), or plucked. The taus is also called mohur and mayuri.
19Length, 114 cm.; of body, 29 cm.; depth, 19 cm.; width, 18 cm.
211263. ESRAR …………………………………………….. India one of two readings
221263. ESRAR ………………………………………………. India one of two readings
23Body with deeply incurving sides. Parchment belly. Five melody strings. Fifteen sympathetic strings. Sixteen frets.
24Length, 116.7 cm.; of body, 25 cm.; width, 20 cm.; depth, 15 cm.
261264. SUR-SANGA ………………………………………… India
27Violin-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.
28Length, 124 cm.; of body, 37 cm.; width, 22 cm.; depth, 7 cm.
301265. SARANGI …………………………………………….. India one of two readings
311265. SARANGI ……………………………………………. India one of two readings
32Body 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.
33Length, 58 cm.; of body, 23.3 cm.; width, 16-24 cm.; depth, 16 cm.
3512 Ibid., p. 101.
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