sarangin.

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 913/2 Sarungee and bow, or Hindoostanee fiddle.

1886 Gondal Jrnl. of Visit to Eng. in 1883 155 Those niceties of sweet sounds which a sitar or a sárangi can alone give.

1891 C. R. Day Mus. & Mus. Instruments S. India vi. 93 The use of Sârangi in Southern India..is rapidly being discontinued.

1920 Outward Bound Oct. 74/1 The sārangi is really the Indian violin and is played with a bow.

1921 H. A. Popley Music of India 109 The Esrāj is the Bengal variety of the sārangī. It is a little smaller than the latter, and uses all wire strings instead of gut... This is the common instrument that one finds to-day in the houses of cultured people in Bengal. It is played with a bow like the sārangī.

1929 Radio Times 4 Jan. 38/3 The sarangi has a sweeter, slightly deeper tone than the violin.

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.

1980 Early Music 8 351/2 This, as can be heard when listening to recordings of the sarangi, does not chop a note from the string but leaves a small bruyard to escape.