The setar is the Persian long-necked lute and is made from thin mulberry wood and its fingerboard has twenty-five or twenty-six movable gut frets. Setar is literally translated as three strings. However, in its present form, it has four strings and it is suspected that setar initially had only three strings and the forth string has been added by Moshtagh Ali Shah. It is believed that setar is the ancestor of the Indian sitar.