Santoor Musical Instrument
The Indian Santoor is the oldest known string instrument of India. While it had originally been part of the classical music in Persia, the Indian santoor was a flat terrain folk instrument in India. The Indian Santoor is a flat shaped instrument in the form of a trapezoid. Two light wooden hammers are included to play along the metal strings providing an exotic sound.
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Santoor is made of a box of wood, trapezoid in shape. Over this there are thirty bridges, arranged in fifteen rows, two in each row. A set of four strings of metal tuned to the same note is stretched over each pair of bridges, thus the total number of wires is sixty. The length and thickness of strings vary according to the octave; the strings are thickest in the lower octave. |
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