The sārangī is a bowed, short-necked string instrument from South Asia which is used in Hindustani classical music. It is said to most resemble the sound of the human voice – able to imitate vocal ornaments such as gamaks (shakes) and meends (sliding movements).
There are different versions for the meaning and origins of "sarangi" The word "sarangi" could be a combination of two sanskrit words: "saar" (summary) and "ang" (form, herein different styles of playing instrumental music for e.g. "gayaki ang") hence meaning the instrument that can summarize every style of music or playing."Sarang" in fact has a number of meanings in Sanskrit.

The tabla is a membranophone percussion instrument (similar to bongos), which is often used in Hindustani classical music. It is used in Indian folk music and is a part of Hindustani music art. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres. It appears similar to their Afro-Cuban/Latin-American drum-based relatives bongos. However playing Tabla is very different to these. It is a mathematically calculated process. The right hand drum is called a tabla and the left hand drum is called a dagga or baya.