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SURBAHAR
Type: TAT VADYA
Surbahar is a stringed instrument made of wood, gourd, and silk. This is a traditional instrument that is found in various regions of North India. Majorly used by the classical musicians in North Indian Classical music concerts as solo instruments.
SURBAHAR in North India
Material: Wood, gourd, silk
A plucked fretted instrument, of lute category. Has a beautifully carved peg box and a wide and shallow roundish resonator made of a half cut gourd and covered with a wooden plank. A long wide fingerboard has nineteen frets tied upon it with silk thread. Four main steel strings and three drone strings, attached with ivory pins at the lower end stretched over the fingerboard and tied to the respective pegs on the peg box on the other side. Eleven steel sympathetic strings rest on a small bridge and tied to the respective smaller pegs fitted on the sidewall of the finger board. Widely used by the classical musicians in North Indian Classical music concerts as solo instruments.
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