... Continued from pt. 2

Sarangi

One of the most foremost out of all of the bowed relatives is the sarangi, which is an instrument capable of making a voice like and evocative sound that is one of the best of the instruments from north India as well as Pakistan. This is a squat and chunky shaped fiddle that is carved out of a single piece of wood, featuring a goat skin sound board, a neck that is very wide and a peg box that is nice and hefty. From the back, the sound box appears to be hemi-cylindrical, but the sides and the front are actually scalloped, making a waist instead.

As with many similar fiddles, the gut playing strings are stropped without actually being pressed on a fingerboard. The surface of the nails and the skin immediately above the strings are used, however. The sound that they offer is given some silver reverberation that comes from sympathetic strings, which number around 35, at least among the concert style, present day sarangis. The three melody strings are typically joined together using a drone string, and they run over the bridge until they reach the peg box, and the sympathetic strings run underneath the bridge, and most of them run to rows worth of tuning pegs that are inserted directly into the side of the neck, but some also run to extra pegs that are belong the peg box for the melody, by way of a pair of flat bridges that are adjusted to allow the strings to buzz similarly to the strings of a sitar instrument.

The Setor

The Setor appears like similar plucked style lutes, but it is bowed. This is the same for the sato and the satar. The Setor is from Uzbekistan, the Sato is from Tajikistan and the Satar is from the Uighur people that hail from western China. These instruments all have a teardrop sound box that has wood on its front and a single melody string in conjunction with as many as 12 different sympathetic strings. The Uighur kushtar is almost similar to a mandolin and has sympathetic strings as well as a front with scalloped sides to accompany the sound box which is shaped like a teardrop. The Tambur of Turkey has a sound box that is nearly circular, it has a wooden sound board and it has a neck that features a finger board and tied frets, and this instrument is typically plucked but has also been bowed as well by some players.

The Horse Head Fiddle

The horse head fiddle is morin khuur from Mongolia, and it is a cello length spike fiddle that is named for the shape of the head with a trapezoidal shaped sound box with a skin sound board that is also occasionally wooden featuring f holes. This fiddle features two strings that are made out of parallel horse hair rather than twisted horse hair, and it sometimes features synthetic strings as well. An equivalent is the Tuvan igil but it features a smaller and shallow bowled sound box with a sound board made from skin.

Photo Credits: pixiduc

Originally posted 2009-08-26 03:00:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Related Posts

• Acoustic Guitar String Changing pt 1 If it is time for you to change the strings on your guitar, then you need to know what tools and equipment you need and also have an understanding of the process involved. The following guide is designed to help you remove the sixth string so that you can change......
• How to Get Acoustic Instruments Repaired When attempting to repair your acoustic instrument, you should exercise caution. Doing basic information by yourself is not all that difficult, but you can also easily damage a guitar or other acoustic instrument if you are not careful. If there is any doubt at all in your mind, you should......
• Acoustic Guitar Basics The first thing you think of when you think about acoustic instruments is likely the acoustic guitar. What most people do not know is that “acoustic guitar” is a retronym. Until electric guitars were invented, they were simply called guitars. The differentiation was necessary upon the invention and adoption of......
• Some Background on the Acoustic Bass Guitar The acoustic bass guitar is an instrument which provides the heavy tones and harmonies associated with good Jazz. Somewhat of a mixed past, the acoustic bass guitar was born in the 50's but was developed in the 60s by Ernie Ball. It came after it's cousin, the electric bass guitar,......
• Tuning an Acoustic Guitar Tuning an acoustic guitar is absolutely vital when it comes to producing good sound. The following is a look at the simple instructions that are required for good guitar tuning. The open strings on a guitar range from the thickest to the thinnest. The thickest string is the E string,......

Related Websites

• Drumsticks and Drums Drumsticks are specially designed sticks that are intended to strike the heads of percussion instruments like drums. Drumsticks are especially useful for hitting specific types of drums, especially during orchestral work, jazz music, rock band music and even marching band music. The most common drumsticks are made from oak, hickory,......
• Cyclanoid 8.1 This is a set of challenging logic games and puzzles. The objective is to arrange the tiles in the center of the board to match the ones displayed along the game-area border. However, you move the tiles in groups of four or more by spinning them with a control located......
• Free Guitar Scales Charts: Learn Without Frustration by Marcus Rolle In other words, even if you are new to the world of guitar playing, even if you only recently have started taking guitar lessons, you might benefit from learning the funk-skunk technique. The funk-skunk technique consists of a player's right hand strumming the strings. While this is......
• The Endearing Power Of Acoustic Guitars Acoustic guitars have been around for a long time, with the first breed of acoustic guitars dating back to have been used 5000 years ago. Now standing as one of the most popular of musical instruments used in various popular music genres, acoustic guitars come in many different kinds,......
• Ruptured Peroneus Longus Tendon So as I mentioned in my weigh in post, on Tuesday I was playing volleyball at the local community center.... It was a 3 on 3 game and we were receiving.   My teammate passed the ball to the setter and I was backing up to position for the approach for the......

Online Stores

• Brass Musical Instruments Antiques
• Left-Handed Acoustic Guitar Musical Instruments
• Crafter Right-Handed Acoustic Guitar Musical Instruments
• Flugelhorn Brass Musical Instruments
• Brass Musical Instruments

If you liked this article, vote for it on del.icio.us and stumbleupon.



Categories:

Acoustic Musical Instruments

Tags:

concert style, drone, evocative sound, fiddles, fingerboard, goat skin, lutes, Mandolin, melody string, melody strings, north india, peg, reverberation, satar, sato, setor, sympathetic strings, teardrop, tuning pegs, western china