vichitra vînâ (Large North Indian fretless sliding tube zither)
~ Instruments à cordes
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 |
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type de : | bin-sitar (Hybrid fretted stick-zither) cithare tube |
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partie de : | bīn (Family of ancient Indian stick zither chordophones) |
photo : | https://staticbrainz.org/irombook/vichitra_veena/vichitra_veena.png [info] |
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Wikidata : | Q863302 [info] |