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Sitar is of the most popular music instruments of North India. The

Sitar has a long neck with twenty metal frets and six to seven main
cords. Below the frets of Sitar are thirteen sympathetic strings
which are tuned to the notes of the Raga. The frets are moved up
and down to adjust the notes.

Sarod has a small wooden body covered with skin and a fingerboard
that is covered with steel. Sarod does not have a fret and has twenty-
five strings of which fifteen are sympathetic strings. A metal gourd
acts as a resonator. The strings are plucked with a triangular
plectrum.

Sarangi is one of the most popular and oldest bowed instruments in

India. The body of Sarangi is hollow and made of teak wood adorned
with ivory inlays. Sarangi has forty strings of which thirty seven are
sympathetic. The Sarangi is held in a vertical position and played
with a bow. To play the Sarangi one has to press the fingernails of
the left hand against the strings.

Shehnai is a traditional musical instrument, associated with

auspicious occasions like marriages and temple processions. Shehnai
is a double reed instrument with a tapering bore which progressively
increases towards the lower side. The Shehnai has finger-holes to
produce semi, quarter and micro-tones.
Tabla is the most popular musical instrument used in North
India. The Tabla consists of a pair of drums- the Tabla and the
Bayan. The Tabla is made of wood and whereas its head is
made of stretched animal skin. Finer tuning of Tabla is done by
striking the rim of the Tabla with a small hammer.

Israel

Kinnor is an ancient Israelite musical instrument, the exact

identification of which is unclear, but in the modern day is
generally translated as "harp" or "lyre", and associated with a
type of lyre depicted in Israelite imagery, particular the Bar
Kochbacoins. It has been referred to as the "national instrument"
of the Jewish people,[2] and modern luthiers have created
reproduction lyres of the "kinnor" based on this imagery. The
word has subsequently come to mean violin in Modern Hebrew.

Goblet drum is a single head membranophone with a goblet

shaped body used mostly in Egypt, the Middle East, North
Africa, the Levant, South Asia, and Eastern Europe.[2] The
African djembe-wassolou is also a goblet membranophone.[3]
This article focuses on the Eastern and North-African goblet
drum.

Shofar is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's

horn, used for Jewish religious purposes. The shofar is blown in
synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and at the very end of
Yom Kippur, and is also blown every weekday morning in the
month of Elul running up to Rosh Hashanah.[1] Shofars come in
a variety of sizes and shapes, depending on the choice of
animal and level of finish.