Saitur structure and composition materials

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The shape and structure of the Saitur is like a water scoop with a long handle, and its shape and structure are similar to those of the Uyghur Southern Xinjiang Dangbull popular in Kashgar. It consists of a sound box, a piano rod, a headstock, a peg, a bridge and strings.


The shape and structure of Saitul are similar to those of the Uyghur high-pitched boul, which is popular in Kashgar, southern Xinjiang.

The whole body is excavated from a single piece of apricot wood.

piano chief
About 106 cm. The sound box is half pear-shaped. Covered with thin wood, there are more than 10 small circular sound holes on it.

piano bar
Narrow and long, with a smooth fretboard on the front and a raised arc on the back, wrapped with 13 casing or silk frets.

The back of the sound box and stem
Two or three lines are often carved as decoration, which is called "yang string pattern".

headstock
Straight and unadorned, it is integrated with the piano bar, and three pegs are set on the front and left side of the headstock.

strings
The casing strings were originally used, but now they are all steel strings. Adopt bridge bridge. Mostly made of almond, mulberry, pine or cypress.

When the Tajiks were making Saitul, they often carved two vertical sunstring patterns running up and down on the back of the piano bar and the piano box, and three horizontal sunstring lines were carved on both sides of the back of the piano box as the exterior of the piano. Decorate.
Reference materials and contributors
赛依吐尔-百度百科
赛依吐尔-搜狗百科

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Saitul (pinyin: sài yī tǔ ěr) is a plucked musical instrument with distinctive features of the Tajik people. It is popular in Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and its adjacent places such as Shache, Zepu, Yecheng and Pishan.

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