In Rajasthan, as in the rest of India, various kinds of bowed instruments are found. Of these, two main types stand out: the fiddle with a long neck crossing a small sound-box, and a short wide neck topped with an imposing peg-box, the whole carved out of a single piece of solid wood. There are many variants of the second type, such as the sarangi, the sarinda, and the kamayacha, which has three melodic strings of gut underlaid with at least one network of sympathetic strings of metal. Like the clappers known as kartal, the kamayacha, also remarkable for the hemispherical shape and the size of its skin-covered sound-box, is the instrument traditionally played by the Manghaniyar, a caste of professional musicians who live in the Thar desert. Their repertoire includes a large number of ballads sung to fiddle