Dear all, Iman Vaziri and Lutz Kirchhof will give a concert in the ethnology museum of Frankfurt/M., Germany on 16. March at 8 pm. The Iranian tar player as...
Dear Members, I only wanted to inform my experiences about buying a musical insrument. There are three points, that you should pay attention: 1- How the...
Hi Does anyone know the gage (size) of the tar and setar strings and where I can buy a spool of string wire? Where can I find the notation for Eshhe Toe in...
Greg, I got spools of wire from a friend in Tehran. The Wire is made in Japan and is industrial wire. Yet you can buy pre-made string sets You should contact...
The size of Strings of Tar and Setar are not fixed, it depends on the person who plays the instrument, but the normal strings, I mean white and yellow strings,...
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...
Dear friends, I'm looking for music notation sheets of some parts composed by OSTAD VAZIRI for TAR, like "bandbaz", "dokhtarake joulide", etc. Is there any...
Salam, I am looking for a 33 rpm record (LP) of Radif by Mr. Daryush Talayy on setar and tar, recorded in Paris-1979 beside other LPs of Mr. Majid Kiani on...
Amir, the "Persian-Tartar (Caucasian)" is of course a misnomer, perpetuated by a decree of the Russian czar since 1828. The real name is Azerbaijanis, and here...
Salam, After Qajar period or pre war1 recordings in Iran, the first recording session happened in Tehran in 1926 (1305) by Gramophone Company for their well...
Dear Mr.Baguirov, thank you for the comment and sources and I need your help for many data from Baku such as a copy of Gramophone Company catalog existed 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 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 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 ـzeyir Hacbeyov's book "Principles of Azerbaijan Folk Music" in...
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...
Dear Meysam Lashkari, could you please translate your posting into English? Thank you. Regards, Judith Zech JESUS spoke: "I am the light of the world; he who...
Dear Judith , hi i had misunderstood the question about Mr yahya zarinpanje and i thought that the question was about Mr nasrolah zarinpanje . so I'm so sorry...
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...