setar
The setar is the Persian long-necked lute and is made from thin mulberry wood and its fingerboard has twenty-five or twenty-six movable gut frets. Setar is literally translated as three strings. However, in its present form, it has four strings and it is suspected that setar
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initially had only three strings and the forth
string has been added by Moshtagh Ali Shah. It is believed that setar is
the ancestor of the Indian sitar.