Sarangi The musical instrument of Nepal

[AMAR420420]

sarangi comes from rajasthan not nepal

[sdfgsdgsdgadg]

@AMAR420420 it must have magically appeared in rajasthan right? i think most people believe that saranda and rajasthan sarangi etc etc came from kobyz , ravanaastha etc etc so why should i believe that "Nepali Sarangi" comes form rajasthan when those themselves come from somewhere else. Maybe nepali sarangi is modifcation of kobyz or similar instrument, which found its way through tibet and later it found its way into india and then became the indian sarangi(with those sympathetic strings).

[brunoguitardreamer]

It seems to be easier to play than a standard violin

[DIYMakerman]

Thank you, debeshbhattarai, for informing me about this instrument. The sound reminds me of rural American fiddle music.

[Somai82]

Supposedly out of all instruments this one resembles the closest to the human voice. Listening to it, I don't disagree.

[apfelstrudelmaster]

what a amazing beatiful tone!!! im speechless, its undescribable, i want one! :D

[Babaziba]

Beautiful music, thanks for posting.

[simplicitykitty]

lovely - kinda brings the same emotions up when i hear bagpipes - get the kleenex!!

[radicalhit]

The Sarangi is makes such a beautiful wailing sound. It is the representation of Nepal, hauntingly beautiful and tragically poor.

[smkonwater23]

Amazing, it looks like this instrument can be played to sound Chinese, Irish, etc. Versatile ! :)

[MrStrangediva]

Absolutely Beautiful! Just sublime! Are they difficult to play(I play Guitar)? I am seriously tempted to have a go!

[puraajhayaap]

@MrStrangediva Well not really difficult, if you know how to play an instrument, any instrument. This instrument needs less skill and more feelings . Very good instrument, plain ans simple, and its carved out of a single wood , you just need to attach strings. If you really want to play this instrument and learn more then you must go to Nepal. Poor kids from hilly villages come to the capital to play and earn a few bucks for a meal. You can learn from these kids, pay them some money, help them

[adhikarynihar]

Sarangi is also played in India.......I object for giving it a country name...its more common in Nepal and also north eastern India

[14sanj]

@adhikarynihar

being played in some part of india does not necessarily mean we can no more say that its an instrument from Nepal....dont feel offended friend, many things in this world have origin from one place while could be found in many parts of the world...i think u people should have a better understanding on claiming the ownership of things(source, tons of bollywood movies);-p.....no offense intended though....best wishes!!!

[adhikarynihar]

@14sanj : ha ha ha......search in "wikipidiea". its an Indian instrument and the great maestro in Sarangi is from India and Pakistan.......ha ha.... I never tried to give it an Indian name. I am a musician and I believe music knows no boundary. U guyz r giving it ur country name. that does not help u and ur country for givin false information. (there might be a Nepali version but if u search in google it says the truth)..... Please dont prtetend false, I have a great respect for ur country......

[14sanj]

@adhikarynihar when u laugh at me i feel no bad, its just ur ignorance,now let me come to the point..no argument on india having sarangi but thats a total different one... u r on a page where a 4 string sarangi of nepal is being played and its origin is from this place...wel didnt ur source say that these two are different ones???no one is trying to take credit by giving wrong information here... its just that people like u cant digest the truth...

[adhikarynihar]

@14sanj : well i did say that in Nepal they might have different version of the istrument, I guess u did not look the comment properly. But I wonder why they have same name!! And later I went to the Uploader's channel, where I found that he/she named all the instruments r from nepal.... Bansuri, Tabla, madal, ektara and a lot....what do you think about that? do u think they r from Nepal!!! just check it out....still I object giving it a country name..... NO boundaries..... they r for everyone

[14sanj]

@adhikarynihar yes music has no boundaries and i completely agree with u on that bt i don think anyone should oppose on their origin either.i found out what u told was true,may be the uploader got mixed up with some(but still more research is required to prove).n i dont think there is nythng wrong on other folk instruments that originated n are widely played only in nepal. u can proudly own ur traditions right? n btw we even have ppl with the same name as urs,so not a good qsn to ask on name;-p

[adhikarynihar]

@14sanj : I think nd believe The Indian Sarnagi came first. And the Sarangi from Nepal is the same we play in my state (East and North-East India). We do not use the traditional Indian sarangi with many strings. If u think about that that part of India is 4 times bigger than Nepal. So I donno whether it will be justified or not. coz being played in some states in India I will not say it North East Indian instrument.

[adhikarynihar]

@14sanj : and also the uploader mixed all the instrument with his full sense I believe. and I respect his emotion and so urs... there r so many things in India also which we have received from other country, but now they r ours too (eg Biriyani)... All I hate the regionalism..... it makes a distance b/n people. u can c a lot of arguments in the comments for the given name already

[14sanj]

@adhikarynihar ur belief is urs n i respect that..but to know much of urs have come by the influence of the size of ur country now,i feel sad on that.when u proudly own ur traditions to be thousands of year old u should keep in mind that india were into pieces those days and even India as a country didnt exist..now it has existed its uniqueness lies in traditions of all small pieces that makes india.. but Nepal is a different piece that was neither of india nor british in history...

[14sanj]

@adhikarynihar and yes i think we should end it here...we share different thoughts but one thing in common is that u n i both respect our traditions which is good. our cultures are so tied together that it is a lot difficult to separate and find the true origins but one thing we can do now is to be proud of our traditions.these are great gift to us both.i did not intend to divide regions here but tried to opine my view that if it is urs u can proudly own ur traditions, thats all. best wishes!!

[haxyfoxy123]

wow ! great sound . i like both of them . truely amazing.

[RadioPej]

This sounds amazing. Loved the first guy especially!

[RadioPej]

This sounds amazing. Loved the first guy especially!

[LostintheHoller]

Who is the first guy playing in the video? I really like the way he plays

[toxicerose]

@Prometheus4096 Who says Sarangi is from India?I am sorry sir,get your eyes and facts checked up.Thats a sarangi !

[Narutamu]

gaine bhai , dherai ramro

[ironbuttermilk]

How do you tune the Nepali Sarangi?

[MultiPowerslave]

i love the sound of sarangi..

[intietereo]

alucinante 5star

[MrAzaele]

Viva Shyam, ti vogliamo bene!!!

[glorplaxy]

It is an sarangi. The Nepalese version looks and performs different in the same way the Spanish guitar looks and performs different than the Portuguese guitar or guitars from other parts of the world.

Also, it is like how "tabla" refers to the set of two drums that is common in music from the Indian subcontinent as well as the doumbek/goblet drum that is common in the middle east and northern Africa.

[tcollo1]

G'day! whats the standard tuning for the sarangi?

[danbison]

If we taught some Bluegrass fiddlers some Indian ragas it would sound like this.

[goodmorningcapt1]

check out mountain music project. They are about to come out with a documentary in which some appalachian musicians went to Nepal looking for commonalities between Appalachian and Nepali folk music. The trailer is up on youtube. Search "Higher Lonesome Sound"

[MFRedeemerp2]

I want to play one so bad but

1. Ive heard that you have to go to Nepal to get good ones and

2. I would have no idea what i was doing

[suomusirkus]

i've got one of those, and i can tell to those who havent tried that its a painfully difficult to play...

big up fi him...

[Gewaldro]

Sorry, but to me this looks like a Kazakh Kobyz. The Sarangi in India looks different.

[glorplaxy]

Nepal...not India

[amarjodh]

the original sarangi was made by Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji.

[EliteXtasy]

The Sarangi isn't just a Nepalese instrument - it's a South Asian instrument. You could hear and see it being played at the beginning of Pakeezah's 'Chalte Chalte'.

[Jazzbonick]

No comment about the video. All this stupid argument about nepal and bharat. Like fleas arguing about who owns the dog. Who cares, music knows no frontiers. Some of your sarangi tunes would not sound strange to an Irish fiddler. While I'm writing this I'm listening to Bhiyo Timro so don't think I'm entirely ignorant about Nepali music. Oh and by the way I dig Navin Bhattarai. Namaste dhaju bhai

[SDG977]

Hey man.His name is bharat nepali.What you thinking abt?

[CatKaryna]

Gosh you are so cool man!

[rameshbhattarai1]

@Jazzbonick

[samratdp]

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[myholynepal]

yoshimitsuuuu-u dickheads dun know the history so better read it.n now u callin our SARANGI is adopted? u r so fucking retarded man.we are proud bcos we rule us ourselves, we dun get ruled by others unlike others.oh yeah!the british came, they went, others came they also went cos nobody dares.....cos its the LAND OF THE GURKHAS n i am proud to be a NEPALI....go f**k urself man n if not then i'll stick ur head so far up ur ass that u wouldnt know that u had an asshole before......NEPAL ROCKS

[01paganini01]

bravooo

[bibekmfr]

hey yashimitsuuuuu, i don't understand why you indain people always critisize about nepal and nepalese. you guys are just jealous and stinke bastard. you guys are just british slave. i think britsh has done good job making you guys slave and you guys deserve it....

[Nerderline]

I think we should all ignore yoshimitsuuuu. He is nothing but a waste of life and disgrace to nature. I bet his parents disowned him at birth.

[pratik1213]

true

[Oiu82]

yashimitsuuuu, You seem to have forgotten that we Nepalese have enjoyed the freedom when you were enslaved by the British until recently. Nepal has never been a part of or colonized by any aggressors in its history as far as the sarangi is concerned its been with us time immemorial, you've failed to see the difference in two instruments, you daft and blind dhoteeeeee.

[lancetop]

Thanks for posting this. Very lovely:)

[yoshimitsuuuu]

I love the Indian Sarangi, this Nepalese man plays it so well, Im glad Nepalese have adopted the Indian Sarangi as their national instrument and made it their own. Well, I shouldn't say they adopted it, because they were once part of India, so they are rediscovering their past so to put it. One only wonders what else they also have forgotten under the rule of monarchy.

[sigdelfren]

well. for your information, youshimitsuuu, we are not the part of your country! What a poor knowlege you have! Come on Grow UP!

[rabinEXPRESSO]

You're obviously trying to preach ur indian nationalism here rather than commenting abt the sarangi music in this vid.

[matatirtha]

what a poor IQ you have got!!its not just about you in individual but all the other indians who says that we have adopted playing sarangi from india matter of fact,their are so many things that you guys keep on saying it wrong for instance,you indian thinking about Bhuddha born in India.grow up and go to history.Lumbini is part of NEPAL..similarly,sarangi has its history of evolution..and its none other than nepal .getting it into existence NOT INDIA

[Oiu82]

yashimitsuuuu, You seem to have forgotten that we Nepalese have enjoyed the freedom when you were enslaved by the British until recently. Nepal has never been a part of or colonized by any aggressors in its history as far as the sarangi is concerned its been with us time immemorial, you've failed to see the difference in two instruments, you daft and blind dhoteeeeee.

[groovingsoul]

yoshimitsuuuu,You're an ignorant Wanker!Get this information drilled in to your head, "NEPAL HAS NEVER BEEN A PART OF AN ANY NATION" We Live by These Fact Proudly.You aren't worthy of making a Historical & Geographic Comments about Other's Countries,bcoz I'm sure you can't even find your own in Map let alone other's, Oh!and unlike you;we are very comfortable under Our Own Skin,Sounds like

I'm all worked up but I really don't give a Damn.

[xrdguy]

ha..ha.. yeah.. nepali are very brave and everyone was scared of their khurki . Jule Saab.. there is no wrong to remain ignorant my dub ass neighbor.

[hbblijstift]

Wonderful. Fresh, compared to Indian sarangi ragas(which are also beautiful).

Whoever loves this, should also try listening the Norwegian Hardingfele.

going to listen more now...

[Ceibhfhionn]

@hbblijstift Ah that's a very good comparison.

[sazzistic]

i just got a sarangi from nepal and i wanna learn it so bad.. can anyone help me, we need some sarangi tutorials in youtube!!!! what notes do you tune the strings to?

[dusteroo]

These sarangis are great.. I have a larger one, but I'm curious about where I can find one of these.. does anyone know?

[ZoltanKodaly]

your semantics are all so trivial that you fight over. the instrument has a place in nepali culture. the instrument has a place in indian culture. performance practice is different in northen india than southern india. performance practice is different in nepal. loosen up, tightwads. you all sound like george bush.

[rajrajraj007]

all the guys ..who r fighting for political boundries and belonging of this fabulous 'fiddel instrument'

Please respect the "SARANGI" and its various forms

Art is to be felt from the heart and practised from the soul.

wot all i know.

sarangi is the closest instrument to the human voice

it can lift yr mood..make u feel sad..make u passionate in a minute of listning

and the reason is, and the reason is..it rasonates at the frquency at which human brains handles the imotion part.

[khusiyali]

My Nepal My Pride.one and only independent country in the world since the beginning of an universe.

[khusiyali]

how can u just imagine and say that Nepal was part of India.wr did u learn all these shits?infact many parts of india were captured by nepal and were part of nepal.we r very brave even we choked-up mighty Britain.india was something like a prostitute f*ked by british,portugese,mughals and so on.

[DeAngellic]

He's not playing it the traditional way...I've learnt in world music class that the strings are pressed using the area below the fingernails, around the cuticles. Which means OUCH.

[regressus]

Also, note that the Sarangi is found in all areas between Rajasthan and Bengal and stretching northwards into Afghanistan. The Sarangi only has minor regional variations, the Bengali one is so similar to the supposed 'Nepali' Sarangi that you won't be able to tell the difference. Nepal's culture is largely borrowed anyway, so I can understand why you trumpet this as 'Nepal's pride' :P.

[MAKURAMANCHE]

so u think only nepal borrows stuff wat about u bengalis don't u borrow stuffs from nepal.... huh....

[regressus]

If it was invented in Nepal before the partition of Nepal - then it belongs to India. Lots of Indians used to live in Nepal before migrating outwards and the Nepalese people themselves are of mixed Indian origin. Anyway, Sarangi = Indian - matter put to rest. Thats because only things invented in Nepal after 1947 count as 'Nepalese' before that, Nepal was a part of India and therefore all innovations before 1947 are Indian!

[MAKURAMANCHE]

when was nepal partition??? haha wat the hell are u talking about??? u don't even know anything about nepal's history and ur talking crap on youtube... go take history lessons dumass..

[sanjokgrg23]

i dont care who originated sarangi or whatever but the thing is when I listen to this piece it reminds me of mountains and windy hills etc..

[yoshimitsuuuu]

The sarangi originates from India. Nepal was part of India ever since whenever it was thousands of years ago. So when you say something is of Nepali origin that was created thousands of years ago, it is in actuality of Indian origin unless it was created after Nepal, for some reason or another, wandered off from india in the last century or so.

[bigyan10]

i dont know where u are from but u need history lessons buddy!

[MAKURAMANCHE]

hey you fucking dhoti go take history lessons

[Ragajoint]

what a bunch of conceited dicks.

[MAKURAMANCHE]

i know u have those kinda dicks... cas ur gay

[MFRedeemerp2]

hard to play?

[MFRedeemerp2]

i would really want to get one of those, but when i look around, I always find the larger style with 35 sympathetic strings

where could i get a nepali style?

[SarabLoh]

ahaha sarangi is indian where did u get nepali from?

[zappatilla]

We all live in the same world, let's share

[rghising]

there are other similar stringed intruments in India or Pakistan, but they are not SARANGI at all...Sarangi is different, understand? Sarangi is unique to NEPAL...The melody tells a story about the life of Nepalese that only NEPALESE people share and this beautiful tune produced by the sarangi makes you feel like a TRUE NEPALI

[Keelsman]

It seems to be historic to India, as well as Nepal and Pakistan.

[desirhythm]

Nepal, wtf? sarangi is an Indian Instrument not Nepalise, sorry to burst your nepali pride bubble

[bigyan10]

keelsman hasnt seen a sarangi yet, indian sarangis fifferent with a different name,  local to people from rajasthan. i am not indian and i know that much!

[MAKURAMANCHE]

hey you dhoti suck my dick

[alokmtu]

Beautiful sound!

[regalparks]

nice instrument

[kaliyarivet]

Such a cool instrument.

[globetrekkerboon]

I've been to Nepal once. And I can't forget this unique sound of the sarangi...Brings back many fond memories! One question, what is the meaning of "resham firiri" ? Hope to hear from you soon! Thank you for posting this video clip!

[sarudra]

Hi resham firiri are two different words resham means silk, firiri is typical Nepali word which describes the way of flying...I know this much I beg pardon if I made mistake..

[monterey93940]

love it thanks for the video

[satanicluju]

really cool...love it..save the nepali pride

[firestar408]

Cool sarangi