Sarasvatī vīṇā, Tanjore style, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963
Item Overview
- Title
- Sarasvatī vīṇā, Tanjore style, possession of R. S. Mayekar, Mumbai (India), 1963
- Creator
- Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
- Date Created
- November 12, 1963
- Date
- 1963-11-12
- Collection
- Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts
Notes
- Description
- Sarasvatī vīṇā Tanjore. L 52”. Named for Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge and the Arts. It is carved from a single piece of wood. It has twenty-one bronze fret bars (mettu) attached to the fingerboard (danda) in a beeswax mounting. Five strings are attached. It is highly decorated with white inlays. It does not appear to have a sound hole (nada randhra) in the soundboard. An extra resonator (sarrokai) is attached beneath the face of the dragon (yali).
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 35mm
- Medium
- b&w negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
black-and-white negatives
black-and-white photographs - Names
- Mayekar, R. S.
- Location
- Mumbai (Maharashtra, India)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Sarasvatī vīṇā
Chordophones
Musical instruments--India--Mumbai
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive
- Local Identifier
- bake_NAJ_N63_167
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002k2z33
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Local rights statement
- This file is owned by the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and its contents are copyrighted. It cannot be duplicated or used without explicit permission from the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive: 1630 Schoenberg Music Bldg., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657, (310) 825-1695, archive@arts.ucla.edu.