These archives are a  tribute  to the many sarangi players I met in 19 cities of North India during my fieldwork between 1993 qnd 1998. At this time I filmed 450 hours of video of sarangi players as well as recording hundreds of hours of digital audio of sarangi players, mostly in their homes, performing, teaching their sons or grandsons, and talking about music and life. The majority of the sarangi players here have now passed away. They were the last bastion of a richly vibrant pre-modern style of musical living.

Each sarangi player below has a page. Videos, if already uploaded, are embedded in their pages. The embedding will be a gradual process which I hope to complete in 2015. So far (November 2014) I have digitised around 160 video files representing around 45 of the original hi-8 tapes—out of around 300 tapes—not including digital video from 2002 onwards.

The videos are of raw un-edited footage. Hence some performances begin with sarangi tuning (40-odd strings—a laborious process) and conversation. Several tapes contain a mixture of music and conversation (usually in Hindi or Urdu). So these recordings have both entertainment and research value, and will be of special value to all the budding sarangi players out there!