{"id":24161,"date":"2024-06-12T12:13:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T06:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24161"},"modified":"2025-04-07T07:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T02:03:11","slug":"sarod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sarod\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Sarod?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Sarod:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>stringed instrument<\/strong> in the <strong>lute family<\/strong> and one of the most popular instruments in <strong>Hindustani classical music<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>It is often accompanied by the tabla (drums) and tambura (drone lute).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is an <strong>adaptation of the Afghan rabab<\/strong>, which <strong>arrived in India <\/strong>during the <strong>16th century.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>modern form<\/strong> of the instrument was <strong>designed in the 19th century.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Design:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The sarod is <strong>100 cm long<\/strong> and has <strong>a body made from hollow teak<\/strong>, sagwan, or tun wood.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High-quality instruments<\/strong> have a body, neck, and peg box made from a <strong>single piece of wood.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>resonator has<\/strong> a <strong>stretched membrane<\/strong> (usually goatskin) <strong>and a bridge<\/strong> made from horn where the strings rest.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>bridge is very thin<\/strong>, <strong>like<\/strong> that of a <strong>violin<\/strong>. The melody strings are stretched across the bridge, and the sympathetic strings run through holes drilled into the bridge.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>strings<\/strong> were traditionally made from gut or silk, but today areusually<strong> made from steel or bronze.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The neck of the instrument does not have a fretboard, but rather a polished, steel plate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Playing:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One who plays<\/strong> the sarod is <strong>called a sarodiya,<\/strong> and the word sarod is Persian for song or melody.<\/li>\n<li>The seated player<strong> holds the instrument across his lap.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The strings<\/strong> of the sarod are <strong>plucked using<\/strong> a <strong>triangle-shaped plectrum called<\/strong> a <strong>jawa<\/strong>, usually <strong>made from coconut shell, ebony, or horn<\/strong>., while the <strong>fingernails of the left hand press the strings.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Two prominent Indian schools<\/strong> of sarod playing are those of <strong>Ghulam Ali Khan<\/strong> and <strong>Allauddin Khan<\/strong>, <strong>each with its own playing style, type of sarod<\/strong> (e.g., size, shape, and number of strings vary), and tuning system.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is tambura?<\/h3>\n<p>The tambura or tanpura is a plucked drone instrument used to accompany instrumental or vocal performances. It has a hollow neck, measures about 40\u201360 inches (102\u2013153 cm) in length, and usually has four metal strings tuned.It resembles the tanbur, the Middle Eastern lute from which it derives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/entertainment\/music\/sarod-maestro-pandit-rajeev-taranath-passes-away\/article68278151.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sarod maestro Pandit Rajeev Taranath passes away<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarod is a stringed instrument in the lute family and one of the most popular instruments in Hindustani classical music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}