Word: santoor
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After dinner, the crowd moved to the Eliot House library to listen to classical Persian music played on the santoor (a dulcimer-like instrument) and donbak (drums). Audience members also heard a recitation of Persian poetry and a lecture by Mashots Professor of Armenian Studies James R. Russell on the origin of the celebration...
...addition to vocal music, Shankar presented ten masters of strange-sounding wind and percussion instruments-the sarod, santoor, shehnai, sarangi, mri-dangam and venu. It was a first of sorts when the players all padded onstage to perform Shankar's ensemble piece, V-7½, a vigorous ten-minute raga played at a tricky 7½ beats to the bar. It was also the first time that so many Indian musicians had been seen west of Bombay on one Oriental...
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