Traditional Indian stringed musical instrument played by stroking with a bow and depressing strings on a fretted neck.
Bowed stringed instrument
Bowed chordophone from north India with three main strings and a large number of metal strings that vibrate sympathetically.
A string instrument like a lute played with a bow; used for vocal accompaniment.
a stringed instrument, rather like a fiddle. A more detailed explanation is available from SPICMACAY at RPI.
The sarangi is a bowed string instrument of India, Nepal and Pakistan. It is the most important bowed string instrument of India's Hindustani classical music tradition. Of all Indian instruments, it is said to get closest to the sound of the human voice – able to imitate vocal ornaments such as gamakas (shakes) and meend (sliding movements).