Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Sound Devices (hierarchy name)
5. sound devices (equipment)
6. [sound devices by acoustical characteristics]
7. chordophones
8. lutelike chordophones
9. lutelike chordophones: bowed
10. fiddles

Narrower term/s

• sindhi sarangis

Anotations

Scope note:

Fiddles of northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, with a short, thick, unfretted neck, waisted body with a skin belly, two or more bone bridges, three or four bowed strings, and a variable number of sympathetic strings. They are held upright when played.