Tritantri or Tritantrika vina/veena can refer to two different instruments:
A medieval stick zither with 3 strings.
As a term for small practice sitar malaproped in the 19th century by
Raja Sir Surindo Mohun Tagore from Calcutta (1840-1914)
[The New Grove Dictionary of Musical instruments '84 ed. (iii) p735]
This small practice sitar was built from a single piece of wood, about 100 cm in length. 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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Museum Philharmonie de Paris
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Indian musical instruments
String instruments