Prasārinī vīnā

Prasārinī vīnā [prasārinī, eleventh quarter tone of the Indian oct.], a 2-necked vīnā of India, with calabash body and the long fretted neck of a *sitar with 5 strings, parallel to which and to its left is a second, shorter neck, with 16 frets and 5 strings. The latter are tuned an oct. higher than those of the main neck. The shorter neck has no body of its own, but is attached to the main neck by 2 short horizontal struts; its upper end terminates in a flat pegdisc with frontal and lateral…