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mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">sarods</topic></authority><related type="other"><topic>sympathetic strings</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>melody strings</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>drone strings</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>lutelike chordophones with long neck: plucked</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>sarod</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>sarodas</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>sarodes</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Plucked lutelike chordophones of the northern Indian subcontinent with four or five melody strings, three to six drone strings, and 11 to 16 sympathetic strings, all of metal, a broad, unfretted metal-covered neck, and a bowl-shaped skin-covered soundbox; often a small second resonator of metal, wood, or gourd is fixed behind the pegbox. They are played with a triangular wood plectrum. ]]></note></mads>