Vichitra Vina (Large North Indian fretless sliding tube zither)

~ Saiteninstrument

Beschreibung

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.

Beziehungen

von:Indien
used in:hindustani classical
Typ von:bin-sitar (Hybrid fretted stick-zither)
tube zither
Teil von:bīn (Family of ancient Indian stick zither chordophones)
Bild:https://static.metabrainz.org/irombook/vichitra_veena/vichitra_veena.png [Info]
Wikidata:Q863302 [Info]