The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.154
The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.154
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c11.154
THE instrument to the left of this plate is the Bîn-sitar, in outward appearance very similar to the bîn previously described. It differs, however, in that the frets are moveable and are arranged precisely as given for those of the sitar. The strings are arranged as those of the bîn, and therefore reversed in order from those of the sitar. The Bîn-sitar is not a common instrument; indeed, the few specimens that I have met with have all been in Poona and the neighbourhood. The tuning is like that of the bîn.