It is very popular in the music of Smyrna and the Poli, and is often played along with a violi (violin), a kanoni, and a hand drum like the toumbeleki. Sometimes it is played along with a klarino and a santouri also. Baglamas. Baglamas; Peiraieus, circa 1950.he Santouri is a type of hammered dulcimer. It probably evolved from harp-like instruments such as the lyra of the ancient Greeks. It is a form of the psalterion of Byzantine times, and some ethnomusicologists attribute the name, santouri, to the word psalterion.
In San Nico, the summers are short, hot, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are long, cold, wet, and partly cloudy. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 44Â°F to 89Â°F and is rarely below 37Â°F or above 95Â°F.
Nicosia, like most of the rest of Cyprus, has a hot and semi-arid climate, with long, hot, dry summers. Most of the rainfall occurs in the winter months, but even then it rains on only around 1 in 7 or 8 days.