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Sarods

Scope note

Plucked lutelike chordophones of the northern Indian subcontinent with four or five melody strings, three to six drone strings, and 11 to 16 sympathetic strings, all of metal, a broad, unfretted metal-covered neck, and a bowl-shaped skin-covered soundbox; often a small second resonator of metal, wood, or gourd is fixed behind the pegbox. They are played with a triangular wood plectrum.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000217318

Term used for

sarodas
sarodes

Equivalent Terms used

sarod

Created

13yrs ago

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