About Persian Tar

Tar is a string instrument played with a pick or fingernail. Wood, animal skin and bones and metal are used in its construction. Its length is about 1 m. It has been one of the most important instruments in Persian music in the last 200 years. The player would sit down and place the instrument on his/her lap to play. It is held horizontally as the main body of the instrument is leaning against the player’s leg. The player then uses the right hand while holding a pick to play the music.

Persian Tar
Persian Tar-Rhythmitica
Persian Tar has a uniquely beautiful and sad tune to it. It is existentially eastern indeed. Having features such as resonance, voluminous sound and broad technical range in Iranian musical systems and modes, make Tar possibly the most complete and advanced instrument in traditional Iranian music. In a Persian Tar, the animal skin is stretched over the body which itself is shaped like a ∞–though one half is bigger than the other.

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