text: RABAB: Chordophone
  JAMMU AND KASHMIR
  A partially fretted plucked instrument. Made out of a single block of wood. Skin covered resonator, having side depressions; a long narrow finger board with an arched peg box. Six main playing strings & gut and eleven sympathetic steel strings plucked with the help of plectrum held in right hand. Used 'chakkari', 'sufiyana qalam' and other folk forms of kashmir.
  