Santoor notes

[Hooman Foroughi]

Ba SalAm,

I have a santoor which is out of tune! I can tune it
if I knew what notes must be tuned on each string.

Can someone help me. I am not familiar with santoor
itself so could you be descriptive on your reply.

(for example :
first bottom left strings: C
second bottom left strings: D
etc. etc.)

I will use my TAR ro tune it so I have the notes.

Yek Done-Ya mamnoon.
Hooma-
foro...@ix.netcom.com

[hoos...@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu]

I believe the tuning on a 9 kharak santur is as follows:

(p.s. make sure the kharaks are aligned in a diaganol
line)

From the bottom lowest string towards up or highest:

E F G A B C D E F

The kharaks on the left side of the board should
be positioned so that when the right side of the]
kharak is tuned to E, for example, the left side
of the kharak must be intune with E an d octave
higher. The brass strings that fall below the
white strings should be of the same note but
one octave lower. This should put you in Mahur.
Then to shift to other dastgahs you should tune
individual strings in the scale, or move the
kharak of a particular string to change the
dastgah.

Hope this was helpful. The santur players out there
please correct this.

Kamran

[Mohammad R. Gharib]

Hello there
there's a book called Beest ghat-eh barAye Santoor by Meshkatian
try local persian music store or
Nashre Ketab or Shahre Ketab (818) 908 -0808 the Iranian Info
and order it. It has a good system of tuning for santoor for different
pieces.
Your Tar would help if the it's tuned well and the frets are right.

An electronic tuner is helpful but VERY deceiving!

Mohammad Reza Gharib
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[Greg Finucane]

The santur tuning for Mahur is indeed e to e' as described. Just
to fill in some gaps, a fuller rendition would be:
e; f; g; a in the middle course with a koron on the brass
strings and, the way my teacher did it, with the kharab moved so
the highest pitched strings on the left were a flat; b flat; c; d
with d koron in the middle course; e flat; f. Hope this is
helpful.

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Greg F