Sarangi

Sarangi, with bow: 495,- Euro
All prices include 19 % German sales tax.
Customers outside the European Common Market get a reduction of 19 %.

MAIN STRINGS
1. Steel 0,30 - mandra ma
2. & 3. Bronze 0,40 - mandra Sa
4. Bronze 0,55 - ati mandra Pa
5. low Pa - g - steel 0,30
Taraf Bronze 0,30

The art of building Sarangis nowadays produces hardly any oustanding instruments. For this reason Tarang offers mainly standard Sarangis from Lucknow whose quality differs positively from the rest. A further Sarangi on offer is an antique instrument from the first half of the 20th century. It is, not least because of the elaborate Mogul painting, a very special rarity, but it is in need of restoration.

Similar to the Esraj and the Dilrupa, the Sarangi has a continuous wooden body which is covered by goat leather as a resonance cover. Above a horn fret which is fixed onto the leather cover, there are three thick gut strings. The instrument does neither have a fingerboard nor frets. The strings are pressed down with the sides of the beds of the nails of index, middle and ring finger of the left hand. A relatively short bow sets the gut strings swinging. The resounding 35 steel resonance strings produce an echo effect that is typical for this instrument.

One of the most impressive timbres of Indian instruments is produced by the Sarangi. With its unique keen, slightly nasal, melancholic sound it has been a less important melody instrument for a long time which was used mainly for singing and dancing performances. Only in the previous century has the Sarangi also gained recognition as a solo instrument in the field of classical music. Sadly, inspite of this, the Sarangi is one the instruments that are threatened with extinction. The popular harmonium has almost completely replaced the Sarangi as accompanying instrument because the harmonium is much easier to play. Unfortunately, however, the harmonium is not capable of expressing the wonderful variety of sounds that are produced by the sliding note movements on the Sarangi. Nowadays, families who have dedicated themselves to Sarangi playing for generations have become very rare.