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20-533: [REDACTED] Look up sa:शार्ङ्ग , sa:सारङ्ग , or sarangi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saranga may refer to: Sharanga , the celestial bow of the Hindu god Vishnu Saranga (1961 film) , an Indian Hindi-language romance film by Dhirubhai Desai, starring Sudesh Kumar and Jayshree Gadkar Saranga (1994 film) , a Pakistani action film Șarânga ,

40-537: A chemical that the female cedar tip moth seeks out. This moth does not attack commercial plantings of Asian/African/Australian native meliaceas in South America. As a result, successful planting of Toona ciliata is being observed in many parts of Brazil , including genetic improvement and clonal production. The timber is red in colour, easy to work and very highly valued. It was used extensively for furniture, wood panelling and construction, including shipbuilding, and

60-421: A concert with a solo sarangi as the main item will sometimes include a full-scale raag presentation with an extensive alap (the unmeasured improvisatory development of the raga) in increasing intensity ( alap to jor to jhala ) and several compositions in increasing tempo called bandish . As such, it could be seen as being on a par with other instrumental styles such as sitar , sarod , and bansuri . It

80-457: A spreading crown. It is one of Australia's few native deciduous trees, with the leaves falling in autumn (late March) and growing back in spring (early September). The new leaf growth is reddish pink in colour. The tree produces masses of white flowers that are very small and tubular in shape. The fruits are green capsules which senesces to a brown colour and tear open into star shape to release seeds, which are small and winged. In Australia,

100-494: A village in the commune of Pietroasele, Romania David Saranga (born 1964), Israel’s ambassador in Romania See also [ edit ] Sarang (disambiguation) Sarangapani (disambiguation) Sharangapani (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Saranga . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

120-456: Is a forest tree in the mahogany family which grows throughout South Asia from Afghanistan to Papua New Guinea and Australia . It is commonly known as the red cedar (a name shared by other trees), tone , toon or toona (also applied to other members of the genus Toona ), Australian red cedar , Burma cedar , Indian cedar , Moulmein cedar or the Queensland red cedar . It

140-742: Is also known as Indian mahogany . Indigenous Australian names include Polai in the Illawarra . Woolia on the Richmond River , Mamin & Mugurpul near Brisbane , and Woota at Wide Bay . Also called Ai saria in Timor-Leste . The tree has extended compound leaves up to 90 cm with 10-14 pairs of leaflets which are narrow and taper towards the tip. Each leaflet is between 4.5 and 16 cm long. The species can grow to around 60 m (200 ft) in height and its trunk can reach 3 m (10 ft) in girth with large branches that create

160-582: Is covered with parchment made out of goat skin on which a strip of thick leather is placed around the waist (and nailed on the back of the chamber) which supports the elephant-shaped bridge that is usually made of camel or buffalo bone. (Originally, it was made of ivory or Barasingha bone but now that is rare due to the ban in India). The bridge in turn supports the huge pressure of approximately 35–37 sympathetic steel or brass strings and three main gut strings that pass through it. The three main playing strings –

180-481: Is in a separate category from, for instance, the so-called gayaki-ang of sitar which attempts to imitate the nuances of khyal while overall conforming to the structures and usually keeping to the gat compositions of instrumental music. (A gat is a composition set to a cyclic rhythm.) The Nepali sarangi is a traditional stringed musical instrument of Nepal , commonly played by the Gaine or Gandarbha ethnic group;

200-450: Is rare to find a sarangi player who does not know the words of many classical compositions. The words are usually mentally present during the performance, and a performance almost always adheres to the conventions of vocal performances including the organisational structure, the types of elaboration, the tempo, the relationship between sound and silence, and the presentation of khyal and thumri compositions. The vocal quality of sarangi

220-574: The Atherton region of Queensland. The red cedar is widely planted in subtropical and tropical parts of the world as a shade tree and for its fast-growing aspect. It is grown in the Hawaiian Islands of the United States, and southern and eastern Africa. In parts of Zimbabwe and South Africa , it has naturalised; growing to maturity and spreading from seed. Toona ciliata reproduces by seed. It

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240-434: The comparatively thicker gut strings – are bowed with a heavy horsehair bow and stopped not with the fingertips but with the nails , cuticles, and surrounding flesh. Talcum powder is applied to the fingers as a lubricant. The neck has ivory or bone platforms on which the fingers slide. The remaining strings are sympathetic, or tarabs , numbering up to around 35–37, divided into four choirs having two sets of pegs, one on

260-668: The form and repertoire of the instrument in Nepal is more folk oriented than in India, and it is particularly associated with Gandarbha people. Carved from a single block of tun ( red cedar ) wood, the sarangi has a box-like shape with three hollow chambers: pet ('stomach'), chaati ('chest') and magaj ('brain'). It is usually around 2 feet (0.61 m) long and around 6 inches (150 mm) wide, though it can vary as there are smaller as well as larger variant sarangis as well.The smaller ones are more stable in hand. The lower resonance chamber or pet

280-460: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saranga&oldid=1224575623 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages sarangi The repertoire of sarangi players is traditionally very closely related to vocal music. Nevertheless,

300-484: The main playing strings lie two more sets of longer tarabs , with five to six strings on the right set and six to seven strings on the left set. They pass from the main bridge over to two small, flat, wide, table-like bridges through the additional bridge towards the second peg set on top of the instrument. These are tuned to the important tones ( swaras ) of the raga. A properly tuned sarangi will hum and cry and will sound like melodious meowing, with tones played on any of

320-477: The main strings eliciting echo-like resonances. A few sarangis use strings manufactured from the intestines of goats. Around the 20th century, the harmonium and violin began to be used as alternatives to the sarangi due to their comparative ease of handling. In Pakistan specifically, since the 1980s, the decline in sarangi playing has also been attributed to the deaths of several masters and extreme religious radicalization. Toona ciliata Toona ciliata

340-453: The right and one on the top. On the inside is a chromatically tuned row of 15 tarabs and on the right a diatonic row of nine tarabs each encompassing a full octave , plus one to three extra surrounding notes above or below the octave. Both these sets of tarabs pass from the main bridge to the right side set of pegs through small holes in the chaati supported by hollow ivory/bone beads. Between these inner tarabs and on either side of

360-718: The tree's natural habitat is subtropical forests of New South Wales and Queensland , much of which has been extensively cleared. The Australian population was formerly treated as a distinct species under the name Toona australis . The southernmost limit of natural distribution is on basaltic soils, growing west of the Princes Highway near the village of Termeil , south of Ulladulla , southern Illawarra , New South Wales. It also occurs naturally at Norfolk Island . The largest recorded T. ciliata tree in Australia grew near Nulla Nulla Creek, west of Kempsey, New South Wales and

380-400: Was felled in 1883. It grows best in an environment with high light levels, however in the relative darkness of the rainforest understorey, it is less susceptible to attack by the cedar tip moth . The cedar tip moth lays its eggs on the tree's leading shoot, allowing the larvae to burrow into the stem. This causes dieback and a multi-branched tree with little commercial value. The tree exudes

400-479: Was referred to as "red gold" by Australian settlers. Heavily and unsustainably exploited in the 19th and early 20th centuries, almost all the large trees have been cut out and the species is essentially commercially extinct. Availability of this timber is now limited. Timber is currently also harvested in New Guinea. Although it is not generally a viable plantation species, trees are regularly harvested by Forestry in

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