text: SINDHI SARANGI: Chordophone
  RAJASTHAN
  A bowed instrument. Resonator, finger board and peg box carved out of a single block of wood. A parched resonator with a semi-circular sound hole. Four playing gut strings and twenty two sympathetic steel strings. Bow held in right hand while the strings are stopped by left and finger nails. Used by the  'lango' community of west rajasthan as on accompaniment to their songs. 
  