setar

Persian plucked musical instrument with three strings
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setar

Summary

setar is a type of musical instrument[1]. setar draws 212 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #110 of 399).[2]

Key Facts

  • setar's image is recorded as Setar Body.jpg[3].
  • setar's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[4].
  • setar's audio is recorded as Segah-Setar.ogg[5].
  • setar's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh96005270[6].
  • setar's subclass of is recorded as lute[7].
  • setar's subclass of is recorded as chordophone[8].
  • setar's subclass of is recorded as Plucked string instrument[9].
  • setar's part of is recorded as lute[10].
  • setar's Commons category is recorded as Setar[11].
  • setar's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07_hbw[12].
  • setar's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300211802[13].
  • setar's MusicBrainz instrument ID is recorded as f1299271-c5d7-4f7c-8b72-d64aa152c3bb[14].
  • setar's described by source is recorded as Min-on Music Museum[15].
  • setar's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 321.321[16].
  • setar's different from is recorded as sitar[17].
  • setar's indigenous to is recorded as Iran[18].
  • setar's indigenous to is recorded as Azerbaijan[19].
  • setar's playing range image is recorded as Tar Range.svg[20].
  • setar's MIMO instrument ID is recorded as 3444[21].
  • setar's Larousse ID is recorded as musdico/setar/168160[22].
  • setar's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007553899305171[23].
  • setar's Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID is recorded as mp2013015632[24].
  • setar's SEKO ID is recorded as 00916[25].
  • setar's Personality Database profile ID is recorded as 505217[26].
  • setar's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/826b5774-9b32-4f2f-a1f9-ca3543d56b7c[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for setar include sitar[28], a type of musical instrument[29].

Why It Matters

setar draws 212 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #110 of 399).[2] setar has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] setar is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for setar include sitar[28], a type of musical instrument[29].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . museum.min-on.or.jp. Retrieved . museum.min-on.or.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . museum.min-on.or.jp. Retrieved . museum.min-on.or.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . museum.min-on.or.jp. Retrieved . museum.min-on.or.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . museum.min-on.or.jp. Retrieved . museum.min-on.or.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . museum.min-on.or.jp. Retrieved . museum.min-on.or.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . museum.min-on.or.jp. Retrieved . museum.min-on.or.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . museum.min-on.or.jp. Retrieved . museum.min-on.or.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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