vichitra vînâ (Large North Indian fretless sliding tube zither)

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Description

Played like a slide guitar, it has two large gourd resonators with a teak body that often ends in carved peacock heads. Fretless, it has 4 main, 5 chikari and 13 resonance strings, slide is a glass orb named batta.

Relations

de :Inde
utilisé en :hindustani classical
type de :bîn-sitar (Hybrid fretted stick-zither)
cithare tube
partie de :bîn (Family of ancient Indian stick zither chordophones)
photo :https://static.metabrainz.org/irombook/vichitra_veena/vichitra_veena.png [info]
Wikidata :Q863302 [info]