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The Santoor is a North Indian instrument originating from Kashmir. It is a hollow trapezoid box over which strings of varying length are stretched. The wide side faces the performer and the strings run parallel to the longer side. It has more than a hundred strings and produces a powerful resonating sound. Tapping the strings with small wooden hammers held in both the hands produces its sound.
Santoor is a Persian word , and it means a hundred strains. It is the oldest known string instrument of India. In Sanskrit it is called the shata tantri veena or "a hundred-stringed lute". The word 'veena' was used to describe all stringed instruments where the sound is created by maneuvering the taut string of a bow. Presumably, the itinerant musicians and gypsies carried this instrument in their wanderings across the continents of Asia and Europe, giving rise to a variety of instruments that are similar in nature. In the music encyclopedias the santoor is found under the category of hammered dulcimer. Popular by the similar name Santour in Iran, Iraq and Turkey, it is a 72 stringed instrument. In China, it is the Yang-Qin with 45 strings, and the German version Hackbrett has 135 strings. The Santoori in Greece, the Kentele in Finland and the Cimbalon or Zymbalon of Hungary and Romania are similar instruments.
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