SAROD - The sarod has a small wooden body covered with skin and a fingerboard covered with steel. It is fretless and has twenty-five strings of which fifteen are sympathetic strings. A metal gourd attached to the top end acts as a resonator.

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Sarod characteristic small, wooden body
Sarod performed by Ali Akbar Khan
Sarod uses 25-strings
Sarod uses sympathetic strings
Sarod uses metal gourd
Sarod uses resonator
Sarod is chordophones
Sarod is fretless
Sarod is North Indian instruments
Sarod is Indian instrument
Sarod is instrument