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	Setar (lute) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a member of the lute family.
		It originated in Persia around the time of the spread of Islam to that country and is a direct descendent of the larger and louder tanbur.
		The setar is significantly different from the Indian sitar, with which it is sometimes confused due to the similarity of their names.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Setar_(lute) (136 words)

	Setar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		(In the above painting, the setar is portrayed with a daf, a precussion instrument.)
		Two of the strings are made of steel, two are of brass, and they are tuned to c, c semi-sharp, g, and c semi-sharp, respectively.
		The average setar is 85 cm long, 20 cm wide, and has a 15 cm deep gourd, and is made entirely of wood.
	www.duke.edu /~azomorod/setar.html (113 words)

	Music of Badakhshan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Badakhshan's unique folk scene is said to be characteristed by the use of many chromatized tones (especially in falak) in a narrow melodic range, and the use of a characteristic minor-like scale [1].
		Lutes are an extremely important part of Pamiri music, especially the three-stringed shortneck lute played with a wooden plectrum; this is called the rubab-i pamiri.
		Other instruments include the nay, a kind of flute, and the ghijak-i pamiri, a spiked fiddle; the circular frame drum daf is also common, as is the accordion, brought by Russians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Badakhshan (191 words)

	Persian art and culture, iranian traditional music, instrument, musician, radif, carpet
		The Setar [setAr] is an offshoot of one of the oldest lute families Tanboor [tanbur], ancestors of which are to be found in preislamic Persia.
		Setar is usually made from thin mulberry wood and has an extremely fine manufacturing.
		Setar is literally translated as 'three strings'; however, in its present form, it has four strings.
	www.tanboor.com (169 words)

	Masters of Persian Music - Maestro Mohammad Reza Lotfi - Live Concert in North Carolina, Stewart Theatre, NCSU - May ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A virtuoso of the tar and setar (long-necked lutes), he will perform extended improvisations from the classical Persian repertoire - music that is highly ornamental and noted for it's poetic and spiritual qualities.
		The setar, because of it's delicacy and intimate sonority, is the preferred instrument of the Sufi mystics.
		It is a four-stringed, long-necked lute of the tanbur family.
	www.farsinet.com /lotfi (390 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> sitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The corresponding Persian name is setar, meaning three strings, although there are significant differences between the setar and sitar, suggesting that the sitar developed later and is possibly a direct descendent of the setar, which is in turn derived from the Kurdish tembÃ»r.
		This is one of many instruments in the lute family of Middle Eastern instruments, included among them is the Babylonian lute which is the origin of the present-day Arabian oud.
		The dominant hand is used to pluck the string using a metalic plectrum called the mezrab.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/sitar (632 words)

	Introduction to Saz and other Middle Eastern Long-neck Lutes
		One of the most ancient forms of lute is the family of long-neck lutes, which today includes the Greek (and Irish) Bouzouki, the Arab Buzuk, the many sizes of Turkish Saz, the Persian Setar, the Armenian-Persian-Central Asian Tar, the Afghan Tumbur, Dambura and Dutar, and even the North Indian Sitar.
		Setar means 3-string; the higher octave was added to the lowest string by the Sufi Moshtaq Ali Shah last century.
		Egyptian lute had a skin resonator and in many ways is similar to the Gimbri of Morocco, down to the round neck and method of attaching the neck to the body through a slit in the skin top.
	larkinthemorning.com /article.asp?AI=47 (2254 words)

	Recordings
		Belonging to the lute family, the tar appeared in its present form in the middle of the eighteenth century.
		The ancestry of the setar can be traced to the ancient tanbur of pre-Islamic Persia.
		Setar is literally translated as ` `three strings''; however, in its present form, it has four strings and it is suspected that setar initially had only three strings.
	www.shayda.net /Privatelessons.html (716 words)

	Iranian Traditional Music Instruments
		As an Persian instrument, in 20th century, it is considered as a Sufi instrument to be played in Khanghah-s for Zikr music but now this percussion instrument has recently become very popular and it has been integrated into Persian art music successfully.
		The dotar (literally in Persian meaning "two strings"), and it comes from a family of long-necked lutes and can be found throughout Central Asia, the Middle East and as far as the North East of China in Xinjiang too.
		It is a fretted lute with six strings, five of steel and one of brass.
	www.iranchamber.com /music/articles/iranian_music_instruments.php (648 words)

	History and Origins of the Sitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is believed to have evolved into its present form in the 1700's, during the collapse of the Moghul Empire, as a marriage between the Persian Setar and the South-Indian Vina, while using the characteristically resonant bridge of the Tampura.
		There is a possibility that the lute class of chordophones is not indigenous to India but was imported from outside.
		It is also clear that it evolved from the Persian lutes that had been played in the Moghul courts for hundreds of years.
	yellowbellmusic.com /instruments/string/history_sitar.php (504 words)

	ATLAS of Plucked Instruments - Middle East
		It is one of the very many long neck lutes from the area of the Middle East and Central Asia.
		The setar body is made of (7 to 10) ribs, glued together.
		The 4 strings are thin steel strings, in 3 courses (the name setar means "three strings"); the first two are single, the lower is double in octaves.
	www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com /middle_east.htm (2551 words)

	Strings
		It is a short-necked, fretless instrument, which was brought back to Europe by the crusaders, where it influenced the development of the lute, which is the predecessor of the classical guitar.
		The Setar (center of photo) is a small lute with a long neck.
		Like the tar, the setar has tied on frets made of nylon (see close-up.) It is plucked with the index finger and used extensively by Sufi mystics in Iran.
	www.toddgreen.com /strings.html (2608 words)

	The Musical Nomad - Lute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Most of the lutes are 'banjo like' - the amplifying resonance coming from a drumlike body - with a 'skin'.
		Strictly speaking the lute is a 'Synphone chordophone' (with optional tone series); its source of sound is 'a material that becomes elastic by artificial stretching' (strings).
		Not forgetting of course the 'bowed' lutes (some lutes are played with a bow like a 'western' fiddle reminding us that all stringed instruments are distant relatives of the pre-historic hunters bow): The 'sato' (Uzbekistan) - really a tanbur bowed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nomad/Pages/muslute.htm (278 words)

	Setar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The setar is the Persian long-necked lute and is made from thin mulberry wood and its fingerboard has twenty-five or twenty-six movable gut frets.
		However, in its present form, it has four strings and it is suspected that setar initially had only three strings and the forth string has been added by Moshtagh Ali Shah.
		It is believed that setar is the ancestor of the Indian sitar.
	www.kayvansaket.com /Setar.htm (67 words)

	Willamette Week \| Culture \| Music
		In fact, the setar may be the ancestor of a diverse family of instruments, including the Indian sitar and Spanish guitar.
		The elder Zolfonoon rose to prominence in post-Shah Iran as the xenophobic government simultaneously dispatched foreign cultural influence and championed Iran's ancient heritage.
		He also invented a standardized approach to learning the setar, which facilitated its instruction to thousands.
	www.wweek.com /html/musicb032900.html (691 words)

	Willamette Week \| Culture \| Music
		While Soheil Zolfonoon believes setar music holds its own with the likes of Ravi Shankar's sitar music, language barriers have thus far prevented his father's mission from translating globally.
		Musical technique, he says, isn't the only key to getting attention in America--spoken language is as important to spreading a culture as music, which helps explain Indian culture's popularity and Iranian culture's relative obscurity.
		Though it may be all but invisible in America, the setar is enjoying a renaissance in Iran.
	www.wweek.com /html/musicb040500.html (691 words)

	The Oud
		Earlier, it could equally denote the lyre, suggesting a process of transference from lyre to lute, the lute gradually acquiring the attributes of previous string instruments and becoming a sublimation of them.
		There is a Chinese legend that the pipa lute was created through the division or modification of earlier instruments of the zither type, zheng and zhu; such a relationship, of lyre to lute or zither to lute, did exist in the Far East.
		However, the texts mentioning the introduction to Mecca of the short-necked lute as the 'ud were all written in the 9th and 10th centuries.
	www.oud.eclipse.co.uk /history.html (3574 words)

	A Brief History of the Guitar
		He showed that the lute is a result of a separate line of development, sharing common ancestors with the guitar, but having had no influence on its evolution.
		The influence in the opposite direction is undeniable, however - the guitar's immediate forefathers were a major influence on the development of the fretted lute from the unfretted oud which the Moors took to Spain.
		A lute or oud is defined as a "short-necked instrument with many strings, a large pear-shaped body with highly vaulted back, and an elaborate, sharply angled peghead".
	www.guyguitars.com /eng/handbook/BriefHistory.html (1087 words)

	Dârvak
		The oud is a short-neck fretless lute with five double-courses of strings tuned in fourths and traditionally played with an eagle’s quill.
		The oud is the ancestor of the European lute, and functions primarily as a bass instrument.
		The ney is an oblique rim blown reed flute with five finger holes in front and one thumb hole in the back, with a range of two and a half octaves.
	www.geocities.com /darvaksd/dv_sdsu.html (551 words)

	Ostad Elahi : Life : The Composer and Musician : Main Text
		Ostad Elahi was born in an environment where the practice of sacred music had been a part of daily life for centuries.
		From early childhood, he manifested an exceptional gift for music, particularly on the tanbour, a Kurdish lute that was the choice instrument of the tradition he inherited.
		At the age of twenty-four, Ostad settled in Tehran for some time and began studying classical Persian music (the tar, setar, and violin) with some of the greatest musicians of the time, notably Darvish Khân (1872-1926) and later Abolhasan Sabâ (1902-1957).
	www.ostadelahi.com /english/life/html/composer_musician.html (528 words)

	Mohammad Amanollahi Aman Tar Tabriz Azeri Setar Salimi Ramiz Baku Azarbaijan Iran
		Mohammad Amanollahi Aman Tar Tabriz Azeri Setar Salimi Ramiz Baku Azarbaijan Iran
		The drum that usually accompanies the Ashigh is ghaval.
		Gopuz: Gopuz is the long-necked lute to be played by the Ashigh in Azerbaijan.
	www.tar4tar.8k.com /photo2.html (257 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Music, The Kamkars, Kamran Hooshmand
		The setar has a soft delicate sound which is intended for the performer to hear and perhaps a small audience close to the performer.
		In this way, the associations of the setar with a woman (Ghashang), Sufism, meditation, and politics carefully weaves the internal with the external.
		After 1979, the santur's status certainly diminished in comparison to the setar and tar, which is also a type of lute.
	www.iranian.com /Music/1999/August/Kamkars (1414 words)

	instruments
		Ancient three-stringed long-necked lute dating back to five hundred B.C. This lute acquired a special status in the 15th century, and has never been played for secular purposes since then.
		The ancestry of the setar can be traced to the ancient tanbour of pre-Islamic Persia.
		(Persian plucked lute) emerged in its present form in the mid-eighteenth century.
	www.tanbour.org /gallery/instruments.htm (278 words)

	Sitars for Sale and Sitar Videos and Sitar Books for Sale
		Sitars are a northern Indian stringed instrument of the lute family.
		The Persian setar, similar to the Turkish saz, is a long thin-necked lute with a small wooden body.
		The sitar normally has five melody strings and five or six drone strings which are used to accenuate the rhythm or pulse.
	www.musicoutfitters.com /ethnic/sitar.htm (999 words)

	Sitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The corresponding Persian name is setar, meaning three strings, although there are significant differences between the setar and sitar, suggesting that the sitar developed later and is possibly a direct descendent of the setar (it is also quite likely that the sitar is an adaptaion of the much older Indian instrument the rudra veena).
		This is one of many instruments in the lute family of Persian instruments, included among them is the barbat, from which the Arabian oud is most likely derived.
		(The name lute itself being derived from Al-Oud, via contact of the Arab empire with Europe).
	pda.molinu.com /wiki/en/si/Sitar.htm (615 words)

	Middle Eastern Stringed Insrtuments. Saz, Oud, Cumbus, Lute, Kunoon, Santoor, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The oud is the Middle Eastern lute from which all European lutes evolved.
		This size lute is not so difficult to play, especially if you already know a few things on a guitar.
		Because of its delicacy and intimate sonority, the Setar is the preferred instrument of
	www.silverbushmusic.com /Mideaststrings.html (801 words)

	Lian Records
		Is a long necked lute type instrument related to the ancient tanbur.
		It is played with the strumming action of the right index finger nail.
		The Setar has moveable frets and a range of two octaves and a 5th.
	www.lianrecords.com /pgs/a_setar.html (50 words)

	middle eastern music: oud, ud or arabic lute
		The oldest known oud or lute was discovered by the Americans in the tomb of the famous Egytian musician, Harmosis, who lived around 1500 BC.
		In Ibn Khaldun (14th century), 'ud denoted the plectrum of the lute called barbat.
		The oud consists of a large soundbox connected to a short neck, distinguishing it from the long-necked lute family (tanbur, saz, baglâma, setar, tar).
	www.belly-dance.org /oud.html (368 words)

	navbar_tarschool.gif (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Setar is a small lute with a long neck, originally with three metallic strings (the present setar
		The Setar is just an adaptation of this instrument to which one string was added.
		The sound-box of the Setar is curved; like the lute and mandolin, it is generally made of strips of
	www.tarschool.com /About.htm (1572 words)

	The Constantinople ensemble - Montreal City of Music 2004
		Led by setar player Kiya Tabassian, the group uses early European instruments such as the lute, vihuela, medieval harp, viola de gamba, vieille, recorder, cornetto and shawm, along with Middle Eastern instruments such as the setar (a plucked-string instrument from Persia), the tombak, daf and dayereh (Persian percussion instruments), and the oud.
		Bachelor in lute interpretation form Laval University, Guy Ross is a specialist of the vocal and instrumental repertoire of the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods.
		Keenly interested in the oud, the ideal companion to in-depth studies in theory and practice of classic Ottoman music, Mr Ross is a member of the Constantinople Ensemble specialized in early music from the Mediterranean.
	radio-canada.ca /radio/montrealmusic/imprimer-constantinople.html (1337 words)

	Slick Shoppers - Night Silence Desert - Music
		Mohammad is the voice, but Kahyan is the reason this exists at all.
		and you also get a larger glimpse into his setar playing than is usual, at least by the standards of his other discs that I own.
		Although if i remember correctly, my favorite instance of his setar playing is on the Yo-Yo Ma Silk Road disc.
	www.slickshoppers.com /details-B00004WH7X.html (601 words)

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