text: SARANGI: Chordophone
  NORTH INDIA
  a bowed instrument scooped out of a single log of wood. three main playing strings of gut, of varying thickness. thirty seven sympathetic steel strings. played with a bow made of horse hair. strings are stopped not by finger tips but by the base of the nails. used as a prominent accompaniment to the vocalists in Northern Indian Classical music, and also for solo performance.
  