sarindan.
/ˈsɑːrɪndɑː/ An Indian stringed musical instrument played with a bow (see quots.)
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1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 913/2 Musical Instruments... Sarindah or fiddle..from Moorshedabad.
1872 Catal. Special Exhib. Anc. Musical Instruments (S. Kensington Mus.) 35 Sarinda. A kind of Violin.
1921 H. A. Popley Music of India vii. 109 The Sārindā is another variety of the sārangī, peculiar to Bengal.
1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 801/1 In India fiddles called sarinda have truly fantastic shapes such as only the Indian fancy could have produced.
1964 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments 456/2 Sārindā, folk sārangī of India, with thin wooden body of irregular shape, and skin belly covering only the lower part of the body, short neck, 3 gut or hair strings that are bowed.
1969 R. Shankar My Music i. 38/1 Several other bowed stringed instruments not as popular as the sarangi are the dilruba, esraj, and sarinda.
1977 G. Wells in Early Music 5 250/2 A sarinda from Northern India.
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