Persian Quality Santoor Santur Dulcimer String Musical Instrument

Was absolutely delighted with this product. But rem no manual with it. This, however, may be downloaded and gives instructions for tuning etc. very portable .

Great instrument

très bonne sonorité et vraiment agréable a jouer

Ce dulcimer est livré avec un bel étui rigide, deux baguettes, une clé d'accordage et deux cordes de rechange. L'instrument est simple et relativement peu cher pour ce type de produit mais le son est plutôt bon et la construction en bois de noyer est satisfaisante. L'acccordage demande du temps mais en vaut la peine: la musique obtenue est propice à la méditation, au recueillement, à la relaxation, au voyage immobile. Pour s'initier à ce fascinant instrument, je recommande ce produit. Livraison rapide et soignée.

Thanks for sending me speedy to JPN!!! As It's not easy find it in my country,I was dreaming to have this instrument very long long time.I love this beautiful sound so much and I'll try this instrument and enjoy with my hasband♪♬♩

I gave this unit five stars because it exceeded my expectations. I am a long time musician with about 40 years of amateur playing experience. I enjoy western music from symphonic to rock and blues. My primary instruments are guitar and piano. I decided to delved into some different instruments and scales while learning about other styles of music. This lead me to the Santur.While I do not have a baseline for this particular instrument (I don't have an $800 unit to compare it with), the quality is good and solid. The staining through the sound holes could be more thorough and the tuning pegs could be driven in more consistently. The sound quality in comparing to the instruments I have heard on line. The santur came with a case, a pair of mezrabs, a tuning wrench and two lengths of replacement strings. There was no documentation, you are on your own on that point. The instrument is of good quality, the case and tuning wrench are not of comparable quality. The case is good for storage, it would not last as a gig case.It took me about 40 minutes to get the first tuning in place which is not too bad considering I had never tuned or played the instrument before (tuned to Shur Sol, G). One test: I let the unit sit for about 10 hours before tuning and after the instrument had 3 days of acclimation, the tuning held which is a major plus.One of the bridges came off during shipping (low E<b) it took a little figuring out as to where it goes. There was a little residual mark where I think was, but that did not match the picture. However, I noticed a number of players with the Eb in a similar position. Also note that the bridges are designed to move and that I performed little setup in that respect during tuning. I expect that will take more effort and playing to achieve reasonable and comfortable instrument setup. There are many common tuning configurations and obviously a lot of playing styles.Shipping to New York was slow but I noticed most of the time the unit was NYC customs. Packing was a little weird in that it was just heavily bubble wrapped and not in a box, but it survived the trip from Istanbul well.Overall it sounds wonderful and I was able to improvise a fair of amount of music in a short time (probably enough to offend accomplished players). Learning a new scale system with 1/4 tones will be a great exploration (as well as resisting the urge to tune to conventional western 12 tone scale). Be forewarned, as an English speaker, most of the playing examples on You Tube are in Farsi.