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include the dotār (دوتار, “two string”), setār (سهتار, “three string”),
pančtār (پنجتار “five string”), and šaštār or šeštār (ششتار “six string”). It...
- 2-stringed dutār, se + tar is the 3-stringed setār, čartar (4 strings),
pančtār (5 strings). It was
theorized that the
sitar was invented, or
rather developed...
- 2-stringed dutār, se + tar is the 3-stringed setār, čartar (4 strings),
pančtār (5 strings). The
modern Iranian instrument's name سهتار setâr is a combination...
- tar: the dutār had two strings, setār
three strings, čārtār four strings,
pančtār five strings. Sachs's book is from 1941, and the
archaeological evidence...
- sitar,
tanbur and tar (dutār 2 strings, setār 3 strings, čatār 4 strings,
pančtār 5 strings).
Musicologist Richard Dumbrill today uses the word lute more...
