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Kinnari vina

stick-zither style veena with gourds, medieval period to modern, closely related to alapini vina and eka-tantri vina

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The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments

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Vina, 4 Medieval stick zithers...three types...kinnari vina...all the stick zithers comprised a hollow bamboo or wooden tube, along which a single string (of gut, sinew silk, cotton or metal) was attached... (English)

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The music and musical instruments of southern India and the Deccan by Day, C. R. (Charles Russell). Plate IX...The Kinnari is a rude stringed instrument employed chiefly by the country people in South Kanara and Mysore...formed out of a piece of bamboo or blackwood, about 2 feet 6 inches in length, upon which are placed frets...fixed by means of some resinous composition. Beneath this stem are fixed three gourd resonators. The instrument possesses two strings... (English)