Post by Dick Glasgow on Jun 19, 2007 21:53:38 GMT 1
The Santur:
Persian Santoor CDs
Buy a Persian Santur
Iranian Santur
SEPEHR ~ Iranian classical music ensemble
Roya Bahrami ~ Persian Santur player
Varzandeh-style Santur
Paul Grant
The santur is a three-octave wooden-hammered dulcimer with seventy-two strings which are arranged on adjustable tuning pegs in eighteen quadruple sets, nine (bronze) in the low register, and nine (steel) in the middle register.
The Santur can be made from various kinds of wood (walnut, rosewood, betel palm, etc.) depending on the desired sound quality.
The front and the back of the instrument are connected by soundposts whose positions play an important role in the sound quality of the instrument.
Although the santur is very old, it was neither depicted in miniatures, nor presented in any other medium until the nineteenth century.
The santur is a struck zither in the form of a shallow, regular trapezoidal box.
There are several sound posts inside the box, and two small rosettes on the top panel which help to amplify the sound.
The santur has 72 strings, arranged in groups of four, i.e. each of four closely spaced strings are tuned to the same pitch.
Each group of four strings is supported by a small,movable, wooden bridge; the bridges are positioned to give the instrument a range of three octaves.
A Persian zither-type stringed instrument played with two delicate wooden mallets.
There are 72 strings over two sets of 9 bridges on each side producing 27 diatonic tones, a little over 3 octaves.
The strings are tuned diatonically in groups of three so each neighboring three strings will have the same pitch.
The number of strings vary between sixty-three and eighty four.
A santur with sixty three strings has twenty one pitches to play on.
Santur is one of the most popular instruments of Iranian music.
The dulcimer, qanun, and zither are related.
Abstract: Dulcimer (Santour) is an Iranian musical instrument which for the first time was recorded in Assyrian and Babylonian stone inscriptions in 669 B.S. Santour was christened dulcimer in English literature since 1400 A.D. and nowadays more than 10 types of Iraqi, Egyptian, Indian and Turkish dulcimers and are made and played in other countries.
Persian Santour
The Santur can be made from various kinds of wood (walnut, rosewood, betel palm, etc.) depending on the desired sound quality.
The front and the back of the instrument are connected by soundposts whose positions play an important role in the sound quality of the instrument.
Although the santur is very old, it was neither depicted in miniatures, nor presented in any other medium until the nineteenth century.
The santur is a struck zither in the form of a shallow, regular trapezoidal box.
There are several sound posts inside the box, and two small rosettes on the top panel which help to amplify the sound.
The santur has 72 strings, arranged in groups of four, i.e. each of four closely spaced strings are tuned to the same pitch.
Each group of four strings is supported by a small,movable, wooden bridge; the bridges are positioned to give the instrument a range of three octaves.
A Persian zither-type stringed instrument played with two delicate wooden mallets.
There are 72 strings over two sets of 9 bridges on each side producing 27 diatonic tones, a little over 3 octaves.
The strings are tuned diatonically in groups of three so each neighboring three strings will have the same pitch.
The number of strings vary between sixty-three and eighty four.
A santur with sixty three strings has twenty one pitches to play on.
Santur is one of the most popular instruments of Iranian music.
The dulcimer, qanun, and zither are related.
Abstract: Dulcimer (Santour) is an Iranian musical instrument which for the first time was recorded in Assyrian and Babylonian stone inscriptions in 669 B.S. Santour was christened dulcimer in English literature since 1400 A.D. and nowadays more than 10 types of Iraqi, Egyptian, Indian and Turkish dulcimers and are made and played in other countries.
Persian Santour Persian Santoor CDs Buy a Persian Santur Iranian Santur SEPEHR ~ Iranian classical music ensemble Roya Bahrami ~ Persian Santur player Varzandeh-style Santur Paul Grant