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strumento musicale a corde pizzicate

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The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument from the Indian subcontinent, invented in the 18th century by Khusrau Khan of the Mughal Empire, and now an essential instrument in Hindustani classical music. It developed from the Iranian setar and reached its modern form by the 19th century, becoming a distinctive and important part of Indian musical tradition.

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Key facts

Instrument.name
Sitar
Instrument.image
File:Sitar, late 19th Century.jpg
Instrument.background
string
Instrument.classification
Necked bowl lutes String instruments
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
321.321
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
Composite chordophone sounded with a plectrum
Instrument.developed
18th century
Instrument.sound sample
Sitar clipping

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Wikidata facts

Named after
setar
Country of origin
India
Image
Sitar3.jpg
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topic's main category
Category:Sitars
Commons category
Sitars
Hornbostel-Sachs classification
321.321-6
different from
setar
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Article · Italiano

Il sitar è uno strumento musicale a corde dell'India settentrionale; è lo strumento della musica classica indiana più conosciuto in Occidente.Il termine sitar deriva probabilmente dal termine persiano seh-tar, che letteralmente significa tre corde ed in effetti esiste uno strumento iraniano chiamato setar che presenta caratteristiche simili; entrambi derivano da una evoluzione della citara a sua volta derivante dalla lira, termine di origine persiana: " al'ūd (legno) e tar (corda).

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