Santur

Santur
String
Classification Stringed, Struck
Playing range
Related instruments
Hammered dulcimer
Sound sample
Sadeghi-Dehlavi-Concertino for Santur by Faramarz Payvar.

The santur (also santūr, santour, santoor) (Persian: سنتور), is a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origins.[1][2]

  1. ^ Farrokh, Kaveh (2007). Shadows in the desert : ancient Persia at war (1. publ. in Great Britain ed.). Oxford, UK: Osprey. p. 286. ISBN 9781846031083.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ --- Rashid, Subhi Anwar (1989). Al-ʼĀlāt al-musīqīyya al-muṣāhiba lil-Maqām al-ʻIrāqī. Baghdad: Matbaʻat al-ʻUmmāl al-Markazīyya.