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 zeyir Hacbeyov'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...
Hi Amir and all, Yes I had trouble listening to the file. I'm not sure what the translation is of what Hafez said but i am sure it is nice. Anyway it is just...
Dear Farid, Your mail and analysis is so interesting and I appreciate your comments and musicology knowledge. The singer is not Molook khanom e Zarrabi and it...
Hello all, I saw a documentry on TRT int. a while back and I thought it was interesting; it's about the rebab (kamancheh) and it's role in religious music of...
Hello all, Most of us know "Nasim e Sahar" as a successful song of Mr. Taarif, but in fact it has a long life and history as many other famous and most loved...
Hello all, I have promissed to upload one of rare records of setar playing and don't forget it. Although we had great setar players like Mirza Abdollah,Darvish...
This is a nice looking Kamancheh. Is it made from coconut shell >? I would like to see a pic from the front to see the neck and peg box and base board design....
Hi , I am not an expert on Persian music but i listen to it often. I like this sound because it sounds like it does not have influence of european opera style....