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SHAHROUD
Back in the 15th century, a stringed instrument known as shahrud
had a special place of its own in Azerbaijan’s musical culture. In fact,
this was a variety of roud resembling oud by its shape. Five couples
of strings made of silk or animal intestines (tendons) were stretched
to the body part crafted of plane, beech or walnut. The resonating
piece of the facial side was covered by a pine-tree board. 14-17 mem-
branes were attached to the instrument’s oblong handle.