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The word sitar is derived from the Persian word sehtar, meaning ' three-stringed '. [7] According to Curt Sachs, Persians chose to name their lutes around the word tar, meaning string, combined with a word for the number of strings.
Sitar is a Persian word meaning three strings. [35] Legends state that Amir Khusro of Delhi Sultanate renamed the Tritantri veena to sitar, but this is unlikely because the list of musical instruments created by Akbar historians makes no mention of sitar or sitariya. [36] The sitar has been popular with Indian Muslim musicians. [37]
The modern Iranian instrument's name سهتار setâr is a combination of سه se —meaning "three"—and تار târ —meaning "string", therefore the word gives the meaning of "three-stringed" or "tri-stringed". In spite of the instrument's name implying it should have three strings, the modern instrument actually has four strings.
Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...
Thirdly the sitar is as much common in Pakistan as it is in India. So to say that the sitar is a Hindustani classical instrument is as incorrect as to say sufis were a part of the hindustani culture. "The name sitar comes from the Persian sehtar; seh meaning three and tar means string".
A sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, parts of which are made from gourds. African percussion instruments are made incorporating gourds, including the shekere, axatse, balafon, and caxixi. Salakot, a traditional headgear of the Philippines which can be made from the bottle gourd
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
It is a type of Bowed Sitar that's slightly larger than an esraj and has a larger, square resonance box like a sarangi. The dilruba holds particular importance in Sikh history. It became more widely known outside India in the 1960s through use in songs by Western artists, such as the Beatles during their psychedelic phase (most notably in the ...