| Native Name | Sarungi | Sarangi |
| Object Number | 51-46-126A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Indian |
| Provenience | India | Madras |
| Date Made | ca. 1876 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Wood | Ivory | Parchment |
| Description | Sarangi (Sarange), fiddle. Wooden, waisted body with parchment sounding surface. Squarish neck open at back with red cup-like ornament at top. 7 lateral pegs in neck, metal strings attached inside neck, coming out diagonally arranged ivory-rimmed holes in neck front. 4 lateral pegs (2 each side) through peg box, with heavy gut strings. Ivory trim around edges of instrument. Dark wooden bridge-flat and rectangular in shape. Bow of dark wood with light hair & ivory frog and screw cap. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1951 |
| Other Number | '78-160 - Philadelphia Museum of Art Number | L-238-126 - Old Loan Number | C493 - Seder Number |
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