Tritantri or Tritantrika vina/veena can refer to two different instruments:[1]

A medieval stick zither with 3 strings.[2]

As a term for small practice sitar malaproped[3] in the 19th century by Raja Sir Surindo Mohun Tagore from Calcutta (1840-1914) [4]


This small practice sitar was built from a single piece of wood, about 100 cm long. It had a small resonator, about 20 cm in diameter, carved of the same log. The neck was topped with 16 metal frets set in wax on wooden tracks, and a tuning box with three pegs.

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  1. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Musical instruments '84 ed.(iii) p628
  2. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Musical instruments '84 ed. (iii) p731
  3. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Musical instruments '84 ed. (iii) p392
  4. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Musical instruments '84 ed. (iii) p735
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