Sitar

Sitar (questionable)

Sitar (questionable)

A sitar is a musical instrument from India, similar to a lute but with a very long fretted neck; it usually has six strings.  Early forerunners (e.g., the tanbur) were known c.1300 in the works of Amir Khusrau [Grove 23:451]; but the sitar itself dates only to the 18th Century.  The neck is to chief by Society default.

Gandharva Candra bears:  Azure, two sitars affronty in saltire Or.

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