Santur Lesson: How to Play "Invocation" on Santur 

you gotta go INSIDE the piano :D

What s d santoor price

Thank you

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Thanks Lucas! Glad you enjoyed, Unfortunately it seems so far there isn't any book in english, My goal from this lesson was to fill this gap and put out some lessons in english for people who are interested in learning Santur. However the music language is through notes and score and is universal, you can get going with some guidance, if you like to I can teach you some techniques through skype lessons.

@@SinaBathaie I really appreciate your generous offer to teach me santur by Skype. In the spring I will have more free time and I will definitely be in touch. You are one of our generation's master of santur and it would be a honor to be taught by you. Kheili mamnoun, Sina Joon. Thank you again for uploading this video and explaining in English.

Hi Lucas, I want to suggest you Sadaf Amini's tutorial videos for beginners. the videos languages are Farsi but there is an English subtitle that would help you to understand the lessons. just search "Sadaf Amini"

Only for this piece

Correct, but I dont call it incomplete, it is diatonic, and just having notes for one scale allow one to be more creative and play in a flow , Same as hand pan which mostly doesn't even have all the notes in a scale

That is correct, The # equivalent are shown here for beginners as they try to tune their Santur using Tuner . This is tuned to 12-TET

@@SinaBathaie thank you. Try pure intonation if you haven't already, it's a very different sound.

Exactly!

Persian santur is like the one in this video, it's the standard and sounds heavenly. Indian santur sounds very different and is well-suited for indian music. A good santur is handmade by an experienced master, and they put their stamp/name/signature somewhere on the instrument body (if they think it sounds really good, they put 2 or 3 stamps on it) so you can look for persian names in the title, or signatures on the santur, most of the time it's a pretty good indicator. Also I'd recommend getting a new instrument as opposed to a used one, 'cause you never know how they might have treated the instrument, things like humidity can harm the santur. I'd guess the price of a good-sounding santur to start at around $350-400.

You can checkout Salamusik, they have good quality Santurs