INDIAN KASHMIR SANTOOR WORLDS BEST ARTISTE GRADE BEAUTY Start Price USD 599.99 Current Price USD 599.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 17, 2008 End Time Friday, October 17, 2008 Location WORLD-WIDE See more about 'INDIAN KASHMIR SANTOOR WORLDS BEST ARTISTE GRADE BEAUTY' Description Original Kashmiri Santoor - Highest Quality Concert-Grade Instrument + CD + Hardcase Top quality Indian Hammered Dulcimer / Xylophone made premium-grade of Kashmir teak. With instrumental introduction CD + Hard Case. Fully tuned, all accessories included. Santoor 93 Strings, 31 Notes with Hardcase, Key & Stick Pair. Beautiful red-sheesham shade. Quality finish and Top Performance. about the indian santoor The Santoor (Santur) is an instrument indigenous to Kashmir, but nowadays played throughout the North. After the sitar, it is the most popular classical and semi-classical instrument today and is a fabulous experience to learn. It is sort of an Indian cross between a harpsichord and a xylophone. It has a vibrant tone and has become very popular in the last 20 years with several alternative bands and solo artistes in the US and Europe adopting its dulcet sounds.  It is a delightful stringed percussion instrument made of a trapezoid box of wood with 30 to 60 thirty bridges, arranged in fifteen rows, two in each row. A set of four strings of metal tuned to the same note is stretched over each pair of bridges. The dimensions of strings vary according to the octave, being thickest in the lower octave. It is played with a pair of flat wood or metal forks (mizraabs in Persian) curved at the striking end. The tips of the mallets can be made softer bylining them with felt to make the sound come close to a piano sonority. The traditional mallets in turn give a fine, precise sonority. This original Kashmiri santoor made the traditional way and is the preferred choice of all pros and learners alike. One must not confuse the Indian santur with the Persian santur. The Indian santur is box-like while the Persian version is much wider. the Indian santoor is also a more sophisticated and classical instrument than the Persian santoor that has remained undeveloped for several centuries and as such remains a crude medieval instrument used primarily as accompaniment to folk-singing only. Click for Sound Sample   Powered by eBay Turbo Lister Place a Bid!