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.
View of Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus. The Mountains of Cyprus. The mountains of Cyprus see cooler, wetter weather than the rest of the island and as such are thickly forested with pine and cedar trees. Rainfall is still low in the summer but it is not as uniformly dry as on the coast or in the central plain. In the winter the mountains see plentiful snowfall.