Santoor...

Instrumental music is again something that has always impressed me. I don’t think the divine and peace we get listening to instrumental comes with any other kind of music. Me and my sister once had this discussion about different instruments and then she made me listen to this one song. That’s the first time I ever heard of something like that. Since then, i have become a great fan and just love the sound from the instrument. And this is the song and the instrument being played is the santoor.

The santoor is an Indian stringed musical instrument which is trapezoid-shaped hammered dulcimer often made of walnut, with seventy strings. The special-shaped mallets (mezrab) are of light weight and are held between the index and middle fingers. A typical santoor has two sets of bridges, providing a range of three octaves.