Sarinda
ALTERNATE NAME(S)
- Short-neck lute
- Saroz
- Suroz
Date1880-1900 ca.
Place MadeIndia, Asia
SignedNoneDescriptionBowed, vertically-held folk instrument played throughout northern India, southern Afghanistan, and south Asia. Elaborate, hand-painted flowers and leaves on body and pegs. Carved from a single block of hardwood with separate fingerboard, neck, incurved sides, and skin belly. Three bowed gut strings, seventeen brass and steel sympathetic strings. Three sympathetic string pegs mounted on side of hollow neck, the strings now missing. Rosewood bridge. Horn nut. Strings looped around two rosewood pegs on lower edge of body. Braided cloth strap hooked through holes drilled in back side of body.DimensionsTotal sarinda length: 705 mmMaximum body width, upper bout: 240 mm
Maximum body width, lower bout: 156 mm
Maximum body depth: 230 mm
Vibrating string length, top string: 369 mm
Vibrating string length, bottom string: 372 mmProvenancePurchased 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
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1850-1875 ca.
1900-1920 ca.
