setar

• The musical highlights, though, were the regional folk artists and, for me, a concert by setar player Massoud Shaari. —  Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
• The setar is a small, long-necked lute, which has, in the hands of Shaari, a variety of tones. —  Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
• I've never seen them live, but on their recordings they summon both bracing sorrow and surprising ebullience with their radiant sound, creating driving unison patterns and occasional kaleidoscopic counterpoint with a dense tangle of instruments: oud, santur (hammer dulcimer), tar and setar (varieties of lute), kamanche and ghaychak (types of fiddle), and hand percussion.
• The change in spelling -- and hence pronunciation too I gather because "star" is a single-syllable word whereas "setar" has two -- has also triggered a debate everywhere about whether the move was necessary in the first place.
• Grammy-nominated composer and musician Hossein Alizadeh, a master tar and setar player, provides the haunting score. —  India Press Release

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