text: SANTOOR: Chordophone
  JAMMU AND KASHMIR
  A trapezoid wooden box, 120 steel strings, stretched on 30 wooden bridges in sets of four on each bridge. Bridges are arrranged in a set of fifteen on each side. Struck by bamboo mallets. It is placed on a triangular wooden stand while playing. Used in traditional music of kashmir called sufiana qualam. Has now acquired an important place as a classical music instrument. 
  