Carven from either one prevent of wood, a sarangi has the pack-boxy shape, normally as much as ii feet yearn & as much as half the foot wide. It has there are no fingerboard & ordinarily trey or even quatern gut strings, which are then bowed by using the horsehair bow & "stopped" non sustaining a finger-tips however using a nails, cuticles & circumferent flesh. It besides has the heavy total of metallic sympathetic strings.

Famously hard to play, a sarangi has traditionally been utilized primarily for accompanying singers, however inside recent days it has be recognised as a solo instrument. Celebrated sarangi performing artist include Sultan Khan, Sabri Khan, & Ram Narayan.

the sarangi is as well a traditional stringed instrument of Nepal, commonly played per downtrodden Gaine ethnic class action. Noted sarangi players of Nepal come Late Jhalak Human Gandharwa & Tirtha Bahadur Gandharwa.