Sarangi is a representative of vital class of musical instruments. It has three to four main playing strings and a number of sympathetic strings. The instrument has no frets or finger board. The strings float in the air. Voice pitch is controlled by sliding the fingernail against the string.
Sarangi has a box like shape with three hollow chambers (stomach-pet, chaati-chest, and magaj-brain) carved from a single block of turn wood. It is 2 feet and o.61 m long and around 6 inches wide.
Sarangi is extremely difficult to play, as a consequence its popularity is on decline. It is traditionally associated with the kathak dance and vocal style of thumri, dadra and kheyal. It was greatly associated with an Indian version of the geisha tradition known as the tawaif.
Sarangi is a bowed, short-necked string instrument from India which is used in Indian classical music. It has various meanings in Sanskrit. The word sarangi could be a combination of two Sanskrit word “Saarâ€ and “Angâ€. Its name is widely believed to mean “a hundred colorsâ€ indicating its adaptability to a wide range of musical styles, its flexible tenability and its ability to produce a large palette of tonal color and emotional nuance. Sarangi remains not only the authentic and original Indian bowed stringed instrument but the one which expresses the very soul of Indian feeling and thought.
According to some musicians the word sarangi is a combination of two words “Sehâ€ and “rangiâ€ corrupted as sarangi. The term Seh-rangi represents the three melody strings. It is a vocal music. It is rare to find out a sarangi player who does not know the words of many classical compositions. The words are usually mentally present during performance. And the performance almost always adheres to the conversations of vocal performance including the organizational structure, the types of elaboration, the tempo, the relationship between sound and silence.
Sarangi players sing with their fingers and are still respected largely in Indian classical but drastically has lost its prestige largely as a result of social factors. The sarangi tradition is integral into vocal tradition and has sustained and nourished it. Contrary to the common belief the sarangi is and has historically been a solo as well as accompaniment instrument. Nowadays many respected sarangi players owe some or all of their livelihood to the teaching of vocal music.
Sarangi is also a traditional stringed musical instrument of Nepal. It is played by the Gaine or the Gandharba the ethnic group.
Sarangi ni mwakilishi wa darasa muhimu la ala za muziki. Ina nyuzi tatu hadi nne kuu za kucheza na nyuzi kadhaa za huruma. Chombo hicho hakina frets au ubao wa vidole. Nyota hizo huelea hewani. Sauti huongozwa kwa kuingizwa kwa kutikisa kucha dhidi ya kamba. Sarangi ina umbo la sanduku lenye vyumba vitatu visivyo na utando (tumbo-pet, kifua-chaati, na ubongo-magaj) vilivyotengenezwa kutokana na kipande kimoja cha mbao. Ina urefu wa mita mbili na nusu na upana wa inchi sita. Sarangi ni vigumu sana kucheza, kama matokeo ya umaarufu wake ni juu ya kupungua. Ni jadi kuhusishwa na kathak ngoma na sauti style ya thumri, dadra na kheyal. Ilikuwa ikihusianishwa sana na toleo la Kihindi la utamaduni wa geisha unaojulikana kama tawaif. Sarangi ni bowed, fupi-necked kamba chombo kutoka India ambayo ni kutumika katika muziki wa kale wa India. Linamaanisha mambo mbalimbali katika Kisanskrit. Neno sarangi linaweza kuwa mchanganyiko wa maneno mawili ya Kisanskrit <unk>Saar<unk> na <unk>Ang<unk>. Jina lake linaaminika sana kumaanisha "rangi mia moja" kuonyesha uwezo wake wa kukabiliana na aina mbalimbali za muziki, tenability yake ya kubadilika na uwezo wake wa kuzalisha palette kubwa ya rangi ya tonal na nuance ya kihisia. Sarangi bado si tu halisi na asili ya Kihindi bowed kamba chombo lakini moja ambayo inaelezea roho ya Kihindi hisia na mawazo. Kulingana na wanamuziki wengine neno sarangi ni mchanganyiko wa maneno mawili <unk>Sehâ€ na <unk>rangiâ€ kuharibiwa kama sarangi. Neno Seh-rangi linawakilisha nyuzi tatu za muziki. Ni muziki wa sauti. Ni nadra kupata mchezaji wa sarangi asiyejua maneno ya nyimbo nyingi za kale. Kwa kawaida maneno hayo huonekana akilini wakati wa maonyesho. Utendaji wa sauti hufuata mara nyingi mazungumzo ya uigizaji wa sauti, ikiwa ni pamoja na muundo wa shirika, aina za utengenezaji, mwendo, uhusiano kati ya sauti na ukimya. Waimbaji wa sarangi huimba kwa vidole vyao na bado wanaheshimiwa sana katika muziki wa India lakini kwa kiasi kikubwa wamepoteza umaarufu wao hasa kwa sababu ya mambo ya kijamii. Utamaduni wa sarangi ni sehemu muhimu ya utamaduni wa sauti na umeudumisha na kuutia moyo. Kinyume na imani ya kawaida sarangi ni na imekuwa kihistoria solo kama vile chombo cha kuandamana. Siku hizi wachezaji wengi wa sarangi wanaoheshimiwa wanalazimika kupata riziki yao kwa kufundisha muziki wa sauti. Sarangi pia ni ala ya muziki ya jadi ya Nepal. Inachezwa na Gaine au Gandharba kikundi cha kikabila.