The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c13.s1.4

c13.s1.4

This S'ruti Vina was, in fact, a long-necked sitar rather smaller than usual. It had two strings, one of brass and one of steel; the diameter of the brass wire was ·3 mm. (millimetres), and that of the steel wire was ·24 mm. The brass string proved useless, as the frets made the octave quite wrong with it. Hence it will be disregarded henceforth.