Abstract:
On January 9, 1994, the Seminar on Sarangi1 was held in Bombay to consider this instrument and its future. Organized by the Sangeet Research Academy, Western Region, in collaboration with the Department of Culture, Government of India, this followed an earlier Seminar on Sitar (1990), both events under the stewardship of Arvind Parikh. Ashok Vajpayi, representing the Department of Culture, provided continuity with the first Sarangi Mela which he had organized in Bhopal (1991).

The Seminar on Sarangi was ground-breaking in several respects. First of all, the agenda was to bring together members of the total music-making community as equal participants to discuss the threatened survival of this uniquely expressive instrument in the changing music world. For a researcher and music student who is deeply concerned with the sarangi this seminar was both enlightening and inspiring, for it generated knowledge and ideas, offering a model for positive intervention in the cultural life of a nation.  

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