Sitar

The sitar is a fretted long-necked lute made with gourd resonators ("tumba"). This example is a seven string lute with a single flat tumba, and a one-piece neck and pegbox made of wood (usually tun or teak wood), covered with a wooden top and fretboard respectively. At the present state, the instrument has ten gut-tied, adjustable gut frets, of which three have a T-shaped wood fret, indicating tha…