Sattar - traditional uyghur bowed lute

The Sattar is a traditional long neck lute of the uyghur people. It's special feature is, that it is played with a bow instead of fingers or a plektrum like most long necked lutes. It is related to other lutes with a long neck like the uzbek and uyghur Tambur, the uzbek/tajik Sato or the turkish Tambur.
The Sattar is equipped with about 13 strings, but only one is used as a melody string. The others are tuned in the used mugam or scale and function as resonance strings.
Nowadays it still holds an important role in the 12 mugam music of the uyghurs.
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[@palwansadik7826]

Great performance 🥳🥳 appreciated !!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Thank you!

[@YusufboyDivanov]

*Assalomu alaykum dòstim ijodlarga omad Xorazmnan galdim*

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I think I understood your good wishes, but could you translate your message please?

[@dbadagna]

Great explanation of this instrument, and the close-ups of every part of it are also valuable.

[@markuswach]

Thanks!

[@dbadagna]

@@markuswach I have just posted this video to the "Traditional Chinese Music" group at Facebook.

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@@dbadagna 👍🙂

[@pauljmeyer1]

The instrument is in tune with itself and is pleasing to be heard.

[@markuswach]

Thank you!

[@balalaikabeginner]

What a unique instrument! Thanks for sharing

[@markuswach]

Your welcome! Thanks for your support and interest!

[@user-sl8rh2bh6b]

Markus,helo from Kazakhstan Uyghur sattar 👍

[@markuswach]

Yes, uyghur music is pure and beautiful! Kind regards to you!

[@secretarchivesofthevatican]

Beautiful!

[@Esotericyoga]

Love this

[@markuswach]

Thanks!

[@Tengrikut121]

amazing🤩🤩🤩

[@markuswach]

Thank you

[@mukhtarappazov9093]

Kæræmæt!!!❤❤❤

[@cryanne]

wicked thanks for sharing

[@markuswach]

Thanks Crystal!

[@Tengrikut121]

correction: its name is ser-tar chief string or head string ! because this is the leader of uyghur orchestral performance , the king of uyghur instrument !

[@enantiodromia]

Where does its name derive from. Superficially, it looks like it might be cosely related to the Persian "setar".

[@Tengrikut121]

yes. due to we turks ruled persian more then one thousand years long and set persian language as an offical language @@enantiodromia

[@enantiodromia]

@@Tengrikut121 Thank you.

[@robabnawaz]

Bin immer wieder fasziniert. Wo hast du denn das Sattar/Sato her?

[@markuswach]

Diese Sattar habe ich von einem Bekannten aus der uighurischen Community in Almaty. Die Sato aus dem anderen Video hat mir ein Freund aus Almaty von einem Meister aus Usbekistan besorgt.

[@robabnawaz]

@@markuswach Danke. Ich denke, im Prinzip könnte man auch eine türkische Saz dementsprechend umbauen.

[@markuswach]

@@robabnawaz vielleicht, müsste aber eine sehr lange mit kleinem Korpus sein schätze ich 🙂

[@robabnawaz]

@@markuswach Man kann eine Chitrali sitar nehmen, die sieht fast identisch aus. ruclips.net/video/j96SDMK4WFk/видео.html