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Santour

SANTOUR: it seems that the origin of the santour goes up with Babylonian, Assyrian and with the Persians. It acts of a sitar vital trapezoid or 72 metal cords are tended on two lines of nine small rests. The normal extent is of three octaves. The instrumentalist strikes the cords with fine rods of drowning whose end is cut out so as to allow gripping by the first three fingers of each hand, and the other end, which strikes the cords, is slightly raised. By its construction, the santour has an extraordinary natural resonance.




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