Learn SarangiNepali sarangi · सारङ्गी
The four-stringed fiddle of the Gandharba, carved from one block of wood: two middle strings droning on Sa while the outer two carry the tune. No frets, so every note is found by ear — which is the hard part and the whole point.
Start from nothing
Which sarangi to buy, what to check, and why rosin is not optional.
The drone pair
Why the tonic never stops sounding — the sound the instrument is built around.
Whose instrument this is
The Gandharba, karkha, and the tradition that carried Nepal's news.
Created by Bikash Acharya ·
bacharya02@gmail.com ·
Markdown: README
This room is about the Nepali sarangi. Its Hindustani classical
cousin, with three gut strings and thirty-five sympathetic tarab, is a different
instrument — the difference. Every sound here is
synthesised: what that means.