Nanduni

Nanduni lute of Travancore, India, made of a single piece of wood, with elongated body, wooden belly, narrow neck, 2 lateral pegs, and 7 raised, fixed wooden frets, all placed at the lower end of the neck. The upper third of the neck is not fretted and thus the first fret sounds a 5th above the open string (173). Sachs, Curt. Die Musikinstrumente Indiens und Indonesiens. Berlin, 1915.