Darvish

Darvish is a maker of the Persian setar — the delicate four-stringed long-necked lute that carries the voice of Iranian classical music. Each setar pairs a bowl built from staves of aged mulberry wood, trimmed with maple purfling and bound in rosewood, with a single-piece mulberry soundboard and a neck of aged black walnut. In keeping with setar tradition, the frets are gut, tied around the neck and left movable so a player can shift them slightly to reach the microtonal intervals of the Persian dastgah system.

Darvish setars are carried by Tapadum within its Persian-classical collection, supplied complete with a hard case — an accessible route into an instrument traditionally played with the nakhon technique, the right-hand index fingernail worked back and forth across the strings rather than a plectrum.