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Sarinda
Alternate name:Short-neck lute
Alternate name:Saroz
Alternate name:Suroz
Date: 1880-1900 ca.
Place Made:India, Asia, northern region
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
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.
Terms
Credit Line: Board of Trustees, 1982
Not on view
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.
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.
Object number: 03078