Tar is a Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries like Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, Georgia, Republic of Azerbaijan, and other areas near the Caucasus region. The word tār means "string" in Persian, and it is claimed to be the root of the names of the Persian setar and the guitar [guitar=gui+tar means "five strings" in ancient Persian, the Europeans added the sixth string to the instrument and redesigned it].
Tar is one of the most important musical instruments in Iran and the Caucasus. The general trends of Persian classical music have been deeply influenced by tar players.
The tar appeared in its present form in the middle of the eighteenth century in Persia [the original form has a very long history]. The body is a double-bowl shape carved from mulberry wood, with a thin membrane of stretched lamb-skin covering the top.
The fingerboard has twenty-five to twenty-eight adjustable gut frets, and there are three double courses of strings. Its range is about two and one-half octaves, and it is played with a small brass plectrum.
(source: wikipedia)
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