The sarangi is a bowed, short-necked three-stringed instrument played in traditional music from India. It is said to resemble the sound of the human voice through its ability to imitate vocal ornaments such as Gamaks or Gamakam (shakes) and meends (sliding movements).

Notable performers

Sarangi players in India

  • Abdul Latif Khan (1934–2002)
  • Aruna Narayan (born 1959)
  • Ashique Ali Khan (1948–1999)
  • Bharat Bhushan Goswami (b. 1955)
  • Bundu Khan (1880–1955)
  • Dhruba Ghosh (1957–2017)
  • Ghulam Ali (Sarangi) (b. 1975)
  • Harsh Narayan (b. 1985)
  • Manonmani (b. 2000)
  • Ramesh Mishra (1948–2017)
  • Ram Narayan (b. 1927-2024)
  • Sabir Khan (Sarangi) (b. 1978)
  • Sabri Khan (1927–2015)
  • Siddiqui Ahmed Khan (1914–)
  • Suhail Yusuf Khan (b. 1988)
  • Sultan Khan (1940–2011)
  • Ustad Faiyaz Khan (born 1968)
  • Moinuddin Khan (musician) (died 2015)

Sarangi players in Pakistan

  • Allah Rakha (1932–2000)
  • Bundu Khan (1880–1955)
  • Nathu Khan (1920–1971)

Other sarangi players

  • Yuji Nakagawa, Sarangi – a Japanese citizen who learnt to play the instrument in India under the tutelage of Dhruba Ghosh

See also

  • Esraj
  • Sarinda
  • Hindustani music

References

Further reading

  • Bor, Joep, 1987: "The Voice of the Sarangi", comprising National Centre for the Performing Arts Quarterly Journal 15 (3–4), December 1986 and March 1987 (special combined issue), Bombay: NCPA
  • Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt, 1997: “The Indian Sarangi: Sound of Affect, Site of Contest”, Yearbook for Traditional Music, pp. 1–38
  • Sorrell, Neil (with Ram Narayan), 1980: Indian Music in Performance, Bolton: Manchester University Press
  • Resham Firiri A popular Nepali folk music with a Sarangi and madal.
  • sarangi.info – downloadable sarangi and vocal music, including the integral of two important books, The Voice of the Sarangi by Joep Bor and Indian Music in Performance and Practice by Ram Narayan and Neil Sorrell.
  • Growing into Music – includes several films by Nicolas Magriel on Indian musical enculturation including films about the sarangi players, Farooq Latif Khan (b. 1975), Sarwar Hussain Khan (b. 1981), Mohammed Ali Khan, Sarangi (d. 2002), Ghulam Sabir Qadri (1922–), Vidya Sahai Mishra (d. 2019), Siddiqui Ahmed Khan (1914–), Ghulam Sabir Khan (b. 1948), Murad Ali (b. 1977), Faiyaz Khan (Varanasi), Zakan Khan (Varanasi) and Kanhaiyalal Mishra (Varanasi).
  • Sarangi, Gujarat, 19th century
  • Sarangi, ca. 1900
  • Sarangi, North India, late 19th century