Sursingar

The sursingar (IAST: sursiṅgār), sursringar or surshringar (Sringara: Pleasure in Sanskrit), is a musical instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent having many similarities with the sarod.

In addition, due to the fretless stainless steel fingerboard, the Sursringar has the capacity to easily emit meend (glissando) that is 2 octaves long.

Sursringar was well-suited for vilambit (slow) alap, and the techniques of both veena and rabab playing could be incorporated in it.

It's gut strings and skin parchment upon the resonator makes the slow passages of alap, impossible unlike the Veena.

Sursringar became a distinct improvement over the rabab with regard to the tonal quality and for the alapchari of dhrupad anga.

Gradually, when the sarod and sitar were modified and became well equipped with a greater range of expressiveness, the popularity of the Sursringar and Surbahar ebbed and these became obsolete in the latter half of the twentieth century.

In earlier days musicians from the Senia Gharana declined to teach the Veena to students who were not from their family.

Instead, the students were instructed to play the dhrupad and the dhamar idioms of the Veena on the Sursringar ( for those who had a Sarod or Rabab background).

He was awarded Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar by Sangeet Natak Akademi for the year 2019 for his notable talent in the field of HindustanI Instrumental Music (Sursringar) [3] [4]