Tar+Instrument

A tar is a musical instrument that originated in the Caucus, it was invented somewhere in Eastern Europe or the Middle East and spread along the routes of the silk road during classical civilizations of the past. It is a six stringed instrument carved out of mulberry wood and the front is covered with a thin, stretched lamb skin. There are twenty-six to twenty-eight frets. It is played with a wooden The tar is the ancestor of the sitar, dutar and Western guitar. There is also a drum with the same name of tar.

The best way to familiarize yourself with an instrument is to listen to it:

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Sources:

"Tar (lute)." __Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia__. 11 Oct 2006, 23:01 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 26 Oct 2006 .

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Image Sources: [|http://www.umich.edu/~persians/PersianMusic/sasan1.JPG]

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