Sarinda
Alternate name(s)
- Saroz
- Suroz
- Short-neck lute
Date1880-1900 ca.
Place MadeIndia, Asia
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionBowed, vertically-held folk instrument played throughout northern India, southern Afghanistan, and south Asia. Elaborate, hand-painted flowers and leaves on body. Carved from a single block of wood with separate fingerboard, neck, incurved sides, and skin belly. Three principal gut strings, seventeen brass and steel sympathetic strings.
ProvenancePurchased in 1982 from Wurlitzer-Bruck, New York, New York, who purchased it in London, England, June 1980.
Published ReferencesThomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Tibet, The Shrine to Music Museum Catalog of the Collections, Vol. II, André P. Larson, editor (Vermillion: 1982), p. 8.
Thomas E. Cross, Musical Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Tibet in the Collections of The Shrine to Music Museum, M.M. Thesis, University of South Dakota, 1983, p. 18, plate V.
"Exhibit of Instruments From India Reinstalled," Shrine to Music Museum, Inc. Newsletter 10, No. 1 (October 1982), p. 3.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 29.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 1982
Object number03078
On View
Not on view
1900-1920 ca.
