surbaharn.
/ˈsəːbəhɑː/ A mellow-toned Indian stringed instrument or esraj, larger than a sitar.
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1896 S. M. Tagore Universal Hist. Mus. 88 A distinguished musician Babu Kally Prosonno Banerji..plays skilfully on the Víná, Sur-báhár and Setár.
1914 A. H. F. Strangways Mus. Hindostan iii. 88 Next to the expressive vīnā comes the dignified surbahar.
1927 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 3) II. 706/1 The Surbahar (Calcutta) has sympathetic strings, a mellow tone, is fatiguing to play and expensive to buy.
1969 R. Shankar My Music i. 37/1 A cousin of the sitar is the large, deep-toned surbahar.
1979 Radio Times 6 Jan. 54/6 (heading) Imrat Khan plays surbahar and sitar.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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