Ali Akbar Moradi Kurdish Tanbur music https://youtube/watch?v=KIXiK-4f5cc Ali-Akbar Moradi is considered a virtuoso on the tanbur, a plucked string instrument with a pear–shaped belly fashioned from a single piece of mulberry wood. The tanbur has always been considered a sacred instrument associated with the Kurdish Sufi music of Western Iran. Born in Kermanshah in 1957, Ali Akbar Moradi, the worlds leading tanbur player, is of Kurdish descent. Kurdish people live in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and Afghanistan, and in many European countries. They have no independent state of their own, although they number around 30 million. Moradi began to study tanbur at age seven. By the age of 10 he was considered an accomplished tanbur player and by 30 he had learned the entire 72 maghams played on tanbur and was performing throughout the world. Moradis meditative improvisation blends with centuries-old compositions in his collection of pre-Islamic Yarsan religious music, one of the most ancient, deep-rooted musical traditions in the world. He will be accompanied at the Montana Folk Festival by his son Kourosh – continuing his legacy on the tanbur. Kourosh Moradi also plays the daf, a large frame drum covered with goat skin with rows of metal rings jangling about on the inside. He also plays the tombak, made also from solid mulberry wood. Its warm tone complements the rapid strumming and plucking on the banjo-like tanbur. The third performer, Mahdi Bagheri is an accomplished kamanche player. The kamanche is a Persian bowed string instrument related to the bowed rebab, the historical ancestor of the kamanche and also to the bowed lira of the Byzantine Empire, ancestor of the European violin family. The strings are played with a bow (the word kamanche means little bow in Persian). It is widely used in the classical music of Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kurdistan Regions with slight variations in the structure of the instrument. Kamanches may have highly ornate inlays and fancy carved ivory tuning pegs. The body has a long upper neck and a lower bowl-shaped resonating chamber made from a gourd or wood, usually covered with a membrane, made from the skin of a lamb, goat or fish, on which the bridge is set. From the bottom protrudes a spike to support the kamanche while it is being played, hence in English the instrument is sometimes called the spiked fiddle.
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