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The instrument most commonly played to accompany vocal music are harmonium as I already showed
and there is another very noble instrument called Saranghi. It is a bowed instrument
covered with a skin and it is very difficult to play and there are fewer and fewer Saranghi
players because Saranghi players were historically low status musicians even though they had
great amount of knowledge and they often taught the women they accompanied. Because they were
accompaniest moving from one place to another and often accompanying the singing and dancing
women, they had a low social status and they got paid less and many of them continued to
get paid less so there are less and less Saranghi players. This is an instrument that is so
essential to North Indian music and to vocal music because this is an instrument that can
imitate the human voice.