Fiddle
2014-13-107
From: India | Southern India
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Native Name | Sarangi |
| Object Number | 2014-13-107 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Indian |
| Provenience | India | Southern India |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Wood | Parchment | Gut | Wire | Ivory |
| Description | Broad-necked fiddle with parchment-covered slightly waisted body. Four lateral large knob pegs for heavy gut melody strings, ten frontal pegs for sympathetic strings (wire), and twenty eight lateral pegs for sympathetic wire strings. Much ivory trim. Poor condition - parchment torn, strings broken and unstrung. |
| Length | 68.8 cm |
| Width | 22 cm |
| Depth | 13 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Franklin Institute, 2014 |
| Other Number | L-222-107 - Old Loan Number | C286 - Seder Number | 6184.107 - Franklin Institute Number | 122 - Franklin Institute Number | A1027 - Other Number |
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