The Treditional Folk Instrument :- SARANGI

       The sārangī (Hindi: सारंगी, Punjabi: ਸਰੰਗੀ, sarangī) is a bowed, short-necked string instrument of India which originated from Rajasthani folk instruments. It plays an important role in India's Hindustani classical music tradition. Of all Indian instruments, it is said to most resemble the sound of the human voice – able to imitate vocal ornaments such as gamakas (shakes) and meend (sliding movements).

Carved from a single block of tun (red cader) wood, the sarangi has a box-like shape with three hollow chambers: pet (stomach), chaati (chest) and magaj (brain). It is usually around two feet long and around half a foot wide though it can vary as there are smaller as well as larger variant sarangis as well. The lower resonance chamber or pet is covered with parchment made out of goat skin on which a strip of thick leather is placed around the waist (and nailed on the back of the chamber) which supports the elephant-shaped bridge that is made of camel or buffalo bone usually (made of ivory or barasingha bone originally but now that is rare due to ban in india). The bridge in turn supports the huge pressure of approximately 35-37 symapthetic steel or brass strings and three main gut strings that pass through it. The three main playing strings – the comparatively thicker gut strings – are bowed with a heavy horsehair bow and "stopped" not with the finger-tips but with the nails, cuticles and surrounding flesh. talcum powder is applied to the fingers as a lubricant). The neck has ivory/bone platforms on which the fingers slide. The remaining strings are resonance strings or tarabs sympathetic strings, numbering up to around 35-37, divided into 4 different "choirs" having two different sets of pegs, one on the right and one on the top. On the inside is a chromacttily tuned row of 15 tarabs and on the right a diatonic row of 9 tarabs each encompassing a full octave plus 1–3 extra notes above or below that. Both these sets of tarabs pass from the main bridge to the right side set of pegs through small holes in the chaati supported by hollow ivory/bone beads. Between these inner tarabs and on the either side of the main playing strings lie two more sets of longer tarabs, with 5-6 strings on the right set and 6-7 strings on the left set. They pass from main bridge over to two small, flat and wide table like bridges through the additional bridge towards second the peg set on top of the instrument. These are tuned to the important tones swars of the raga. A properly tuned sarangi will hum and buzz like a bee-hive, with tones played on any of the main strings eliciting echo-like resonances. A few sarangis use strings manufactured from the intestines of goats - these harken back to the days when rich musicians could afford such strings.

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         Mr. Preetam Singh Making the SARANGI

Sarangi Parts Making Harjinder Singh

Final Finishing by Mr. Sandeep Singh

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Mr. Preetam Singh in Horniman museum(UK) with Organizer 

 

Mr. Preetam Singh teach the SARANGI, in Horniman Museum  (UK)

Award of owner Mr. Preetam Singh, in Boparai

VIDEO   OF   Mr. PREETAM   SINGH   BOPARAI