Dear friends, I have been following a series of comments about the current position of the kamancheh in Iranian classical music. The controversy seems to have...
hello we have creat new site from Mr.aliasghar allahyari (kamanche maker from iran - tehran) he is big ostad from persian kamanche about for 30 years. our site...
Hi Larri and fellow kamancheh enthusiasts/players, The "controversy" that is being talked about is what Ostad Lotfi wrote on the inside cover of his new album....
Dear Peyman , Thank you so much for the wonderful links and insight. You are so kind. This bonding through arts is so powerful. I wonder if anybody can upload...
There is a little article on the Gheyckak at 4mezrab.com: http://4mezrab.blogfa.com/post-9.aspx This is a nice website with lots of content. I wish the updates...
Hi Friends , I have a question. Why is the bridge on the Kamancheh at an angle. On a guitar and violin and tar the bridge is at 90 degrees to the strings. I...
Hi This is for acoustical reasons. Pitch problem and anatomy of the hand. regards Athar Torabi ... De : Kamanche@yahoogroups.com Date : 5/27/2006 10:34:23 AM A...
Thank you , Yes I understand . It seems obvious now. Larri As regards to the bridge and its reletionship to the skin of Kamancheh. Because there is an...
Hi all, I do think this is accoustics. I had this question myself, and I have experimented a bit and found some conclusions. When I changed the skin (that is a...
Hello everyone, I am not sure if I understood the question Larri had. Sometimes you need to give the bridge time to set in. You should wet the skin below the...
Thanks Kousha for the information. I find it very useful. I also thought the drum head resonance articles was interesting. I have read up on some instrument...
Dear all, I would like to inform you about the State Museum of Azerbaijani Musical Culture which I visited recently in Baku, Azerbaijan and which might be of...
hi....my name is behzad....how do you do.... I study in petroleum university of technology in ahwaz wanna buy a kamanche and start to play.... I have played...
Hi everyone, Digging around, I finally found out about the mystery of the cloth put on the face of the kamancheh. This was first done by Habil Aliev....
hi, dear behzad for get an instrument you can call mr. hamid nouri in tehran, he has also
a music shop there he is very experimented in this field and very...
thanks for your informations I will go there and see the instruments to bye a perfect one... really thanks but how about the price? does everybody know about...
Hmmm Where did you do this digging? I think we've got quite some excellent information here in the group. Maybe we might want to put things together and edit...
The information on "soordin" came from M.R. Darvishi's "Dayeratolmaarefeh sazhayeh iran," volume 1. It's in the section on Azeri kamanchehs. Needless to say...
Dear Judith, You may know we have a very few Persian cylinders and all of them are private recordings. Edison was fighting for cylinder format and beside his...
Dear all, at http://musbook.musigi-dunya.az/musbook/ I found an electron publication of Üzeyir Hacýbeyov's book "Principles of Azerbaijan Folk Music" in...
Dear friends, A question for your weekend: Have you ever heard this tasnif? Who do you guess to be the singer and the Tar player? Hear my sample1.mp3 Here: ...
Dear all, I found this short abstract at http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/fbta.html which I have attached below. Some information about the museum and the...
Hi all, There is no response yet. Has the file any problem to dowmload? Did you hear it? The style of Tar playing wasn't known? You may guess wrong and it is...