Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stringed instrument of India played upright with a bow and usually having three playing strings, a fretless playing board, and numerous sympathetic resonating strings.
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- noun music A bowed string instrument used in the Hindustani classical music of North India.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One Indian musician, Ustad Sultan Khan, was a master of the Indian instrument called the sarangi, and we played together a few times.
Awakening Kindness Nawang Khechog 2010
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One Indian musician, Ustad Sultan Khan, was a master of the Indian instrument called the sarangi, and we played together a few times.
Awakening Kindness Nawang Khechog 2010
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One Indian musician, Ustad Sultan Khan, was a master of the Indian instrument called the sarangi, and we played together a few times.
Awakening Kindness Nawang Khechog 2010
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There she was granted a scholarship to learn the sarangi under the guidance of maestro Pandit Ram Narayan in India.
Michal Shapiro: A Precursor to the Violin: the Polish Suka Michal Shapiro 2011
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There she was granted a scholarship to learn the sarangi under the guidance of maestro Pandit Ram Narayan in India.
Michal Shapiro: A Precursor to the Violin: the Polish Suka Michal Shapiro 2011
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To be a musician was to play the classical stuff - think tabla, sitar, flute and sarangi - which dominated public performances.
A tough, sexy blues singer at Kennedy Center India festival embodies country's rise 2011
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Before the fairly recent introduction of the harmonium, qawwalis were usually accompanied by the sarangi.
The Qawwals and Qawwali « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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He employs real deal classical musicians, such as Bansuri flautist Ajay Prasann, vocalists Riffat Sultana and Sukhwat Ali Khan, sarangi player Muraadi Ali Khan, bassist Dr. Das, and tabla player Salar Nadar to lay the landscape.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: EthnoTechno, Gnawledge, and Pushing Air 2009
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The film has a cast of woman characters and the lead is Waheeda Rehman, a spectacled old lady led into manual labor by the vagaries of her husband, a sarangi player who is insatiably addicted to alcohol and the rural theatre of nautanki and though not explicitly stated, to the debauched life that such artistes were generally understood to be attracted to.
Namkeen: The tears are salty Shantanud 2008
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He did not know if the record player still worked: it had wheezed and scraped even then as they lay on their bed listening to the sarangi, watching the luminous night sky sliced up by the window grill.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
reesetee commented on the word sarangi
A violin-like instrument important 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).
March 20, 2008