Sarangi is the common name of the instruments with short necks which are popular in the South and North of India and played with bow. This category involves the old instruments made of one piece of wood and a sound box coated with a skin. The body of the traditional Sarangi has symmetric structure and is found as ‘Jogiya Sarangi’ (the left instrument) or ‘Sindhi Sarangi’ mostly in Rajasthan. There are sometimes small bells mounted to the bow part of the instrument to emphasise the rhythm. The back part of the neck of the Sarangi is holed. It enables to tie the strings to the tuners. The number of the played strings is three or four: three thick strings and one brass string as a bourdon.
