Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!jayasim From: jayasim@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.nlang.india Subject: Re: Santoor/Dulcimer Message-ID: <141700045@uiucdcsb> Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 16:12:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.141700045 Posted: Mon Sep 30 16:12:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 09:36:50 EDT References: <40800009@waltz> Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:waltz:40800009:uiucdcsb:141700045:000:477 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!jayasim Sep 30 15:12:00 1985 A few months back Shivkumar Sharma gave a concert here. He remarked that the closest "Western relative" to the santoor is the dulcimer. But he did not elaborate on the common origins of the two instruments. BTW, the santoor is a folk instrument from the Kashmir area. People are free to speculate from hereon. D.N.Jayasimha, Uof Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, usenet: ...!{ihnp4,convex,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!jayasim csnet: jayasim%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa arpa: jayasim@uiuc.arpa