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Thread #63149 Message #1023518
Posted By: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
23-Sep-03 - 11:22 AM
Thread Name: Anyone familiar with an Iraq dulcimer?
Subject: RE: Anyone familiar with an Iraq dulcimer?
the santur (santoor, santour) is common throughout Northern India, Iran, Iraq, Turkey etc. In eastern Europe it becomes the cymbalom, in china and the east it's called yangqin (yang-chin, yang-chen). one of the widest ranging instruments in the world, and adaptable to all the modes & styles of music played on it.