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The instruments moved from Spain northward to France [155] and eastward towards Italy by way of Provence. Like the earlier gittern, the mandore's back and neck were in earlier forms carved out of a block of wood. [156] This "hollowed out construction" did still exist in the 16th century, according to James Tyler, but was becoming rare. [156]
The sitar (English: / ˈ s ɪ t ɑːr / or / s ɪ ˈ t ɑːr /; IAST: sitāra) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.
Ravi Shankar, a master of the instrument, was the first to make inroads into Western culture with the sitar.. While the sitar had earlier been used in jazz and Indian film music, it was from the 1960s onwards that various pop artists in the Western world began to experiment with incorporating the sitar, a classical Indian stringed instrument, within their compositions.
The long lute had an attached neck, and included the sitar, tanbur and tar: the dutār had two strings, setār three strings, čārtār four strings, pančtār five strings. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Sachs's book is from 1941, and the archaeological evidence available to him placed the early lutes at about 2000 BC. [ 9 ]
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Laúd (Spanish: "lute") is a plectrum-plucked chordophone from Spain, played also in diaspora countries such as Cuba and the Philippines. The laúd belongs to the cittern family of instruments. The Spanish and Cuban instruments have six double courses in unison (i.e. twelve strings in pairs); the Philippine instrument has 14 strings with some ...
These men had come to our country on instructions from Raja Vikram to spread knowl edge, religion and music." Coins are also available on which King Vikramaditya is seen playing the parivaadini. This is conclusive evidence that the Sitar is Indian in origin. 2) There is no word in Persian from which the word sitar is derived.
Castile/Spain, c. 1300–1340. The left instrument has been called both citole and guitarra latina. The left instrument has been called both citole and guitarra latina. It seems to lack the citole's deep neck, trefoil, and vestigial wings, but the body shape resembles the citole, and it has the sound holes in each corner and the circle of sound ...