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	Parham Nassehpoor, Persian Tar, Kamanche, Persian Classical Music
		Kamanche is played in many different cultures and regions, like in Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey,...and with different pronounciations and different names, like Kamanche or Kamancheh or Kamantche in Iran, Kamancha or Kamantcha in Azerbaijan, Kemanche or Kemancha or Kemantcha in Armenia, Kabak Kemane in Turkey, Ghichak (Gijak, Gidzhak,...) in Central Asia, Rababa in Arab countries....
		Kamanche strings are produced in the countries, in which Kamanche is played, but the quality of these strings are not good enough, that is why many Kamanche players try to use Violin or Viola strings for Kamanche.
		Kamanche has mainly four strings at the present time, but there are some kinds of Kamanche that they have three strings and there were at the past time some kinds of Kamanche with two until six strings.
	parhamnassehpoor.com /html/kamanche.html (736 words)

	Santur.Com - The Art of Persian Music - Technical Info
		A performer must be aware of all the possible tunings for the twelve dastgah-ha such as the main tunings for the dastgah-ha, tuning for men’s or women’s voiced, favored tunings for important gushe-ha, and the use of scordatura tunings.
		The first two higher strings on the tar, setar, and kamanche (see Figure 6) are tuned for playing the melody, and the other lower strings are tuned for bourdon effect, usually to the prominent notes and the tonic of the pieces.
		Kamanche and violin are easier to change and adapt for these tunings.
	www.santur.com /papers.html (2343 words)

	The 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Connecting Culture, Creating Trust
		The kamanche is a spike fiddle played in Iran, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, particularly in improvised music known as maqam.
		The first known reference to the kamanche was in the 12th century c.e.
		Shamanic instruments may also have inspired the round-bodied spike fiddles played in West Asia (kamanche, ghijak) and Indonesia (rebab), the carved fiddles of the Asian subcontinent (sorud, sarinda, sarangi), and the two-stringed fiddles of China called the huqin (“foreign qin”) of which the best known is the erhu.
	www.silkroadproject.org /smithsonian/nomads/story.html (850 words)

	The kamancheh or kamanche is a type of folk folk violin...
		The kamancheh or kamanche is a type of folk folk violin...
		The "kamancheh" or "kamanche" is a type of folk folk violin violin from Iran Iran.
		Played with a bow bow, the kamancheh consists of a wooden wooden hemispherical hemispherical body (which acts as a sound box sound box) covered with a thin sheep sheep or fish fishskin skin membrane membrane.
	www.biodatabase.de /Kamancheh (214 words)

	Asghar Bahari Biography - AOL Music
		He performs on the kamanche, an instrument which is played with a bow, and is also the composer of a repertoire of pieces for kamanche.
		When ^Bahari began playing over Radio Iran in 1952, the kamanche had generally fallen out of public favor, and it was in many ways his extensive concertizing and broadcasting that created a renewal in the instrument's status in classical Iranian music.
		His invitation to go to France to record for national radio in 1966 was an appropriate tribute to the virtuoso talents he had developed by the time he was in his '60s.
	music.aol.com /artist/asghar-bahari/53473/biography (414 words)

	MusicOfWorld.com
		The Kamanche is a type of folk violin that comes from Iran in the Middle East.
		This instrument, made in the 18th century, has three silk strings, though modern kamanches have four metal ones.
		The Kamanche is the only bowed string instrument in the classical tradition of Iran.
	musicofworld.com /instruments.html (522 words)

	World Music Central - K
		The sound is produced by the vibration of tongues of metal or wood.
		Kamanche - a Persian and Armenian instrument that belongs to the violin family of instruments and while it is almost the size of a violin, it is held upright.
		Kamanche — a small knee fiddle, bowed like a cello, with four metal strings and four sympathetic strings (Armenia, Iran).
	worldmusiccentral.org /staticpages/index.php/instruments_k.htm (1422 words)

	WORLD VILLAGE
		He plays as a soloist on the Armenian National Radio and has written several books on the tar.
		Kamanche player Hagop Khalatian was born in 1956 in Yerevan, Armenia.
		Since 1982 he has been a soloist with the Aram Merangulian Ensemble for Popular Music on the national radio; he also teaches kamanche at the Romanos Melikian College of Music.
	www.worldvillagemusic.com /anglais/artistesfiche.php?artist_id=64 (433 words)

	Ray of Wine
		Ray of The Wine's blend of Persian, Moroccan, African, Indian and Western music is at once earthy, mystical and seductive, as traditional rigor meets improvisational freedom and complex, passionate melodies couple with relentless grooves.
		Reza is a master of traditional Persian stringed instruments like the Tar, Sehtar and the bowed Tarmanche and Kamanche, as well as the bamboo flute known as the Ney and the Daf, a hand drum.
		With fantastic bass lines that groove to the percussion and superb sitar play, “Ray of the Wine” is both inspiring and dauntingly familiar with its catchy melodies that will turn pop on its head.
	www.eworldrecords.com /rayofwine.html (222 words)

	RKAC --- Kamanche --- English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It has a small, hollowed hardwood body with a thin stretched membrane made from the skin of an animal or a fish.
		The kamanches that appear in antique Persian paintings have three strings.
		It is suspected that the fourth string was added in the early twentieth century as the result of the introduction of the European violin to Persia.
	www.rkac.com /instruments/kamanche.htm (91 words)

	Music: Cross-Culture (The Boston Phoenix . 02-14-00)
		Back in 1997, producer Brian Cullman was so inspired by the unusual plucking and bowing techniques, singing tones, and expansive improvisations of Kayhan Kalhor, master of the three-stringed Iranian violin called "kamanche," that he resolved to build a group around him.
		Initially Cullman envisioned, as he puts it, "a Middle Eastern equivalent of the Chieftains." Kalhor, however, favored a smaller ensemble focused on the interaction between himself and a young master of the Indian sitar, Shujaat Hussain Khan.
		He moved onto the violin briefly, then settled on the Persian variant, the kamanche, because, he recounts, "The sound of kamanche was closer to my soul." Kalhor has created his own techniques and approaches to classical ornamentation on the kamanche and has developed a reputation as an innovator.
	weeklywire.com /ww/02-14-00/boston_music_4.html (817 words)

	Music Fellowship - 2006/2007 Fellows
		A very popular instrument, the kamanche is almost always present in the make-up of all sizes of classical Persian ensembles.
		He studied the instrument as well as the Persian radif at the Center for the Preservation of Music in Tehran with master musicians Mohammad Moghadassi, Davoud Ganjeie and Reza Rahimi Jafari.
		In addition to the kamanche, Arabi plays the tombak, daf, and violin.
	www.durfee.org /programs/music/pastawards.html (1017 words)

	MI7 Libraries - Middle East Kamanche
		The kamanche is a spike fiddle from central Asia.
		It is the only bowed instrument in traditional Persian music and it is used in both ensemble and solo works.
		This instrument is played in sitting position with the kamanche in front of the player vertically.
	www.mi7libraries.com /main/samples/pack.jsp?id=1262 (69 words)

	SoundStage! Reza - Ray of the Wine
		Densmore has used restraint and taste in helping Reza translate his music into something we can understand, and he has done it without sacrificing its cultural roots.
		Reza plays several string instruments (tar, sitar, kamanche) and a reed called a ney.
		He bases many of his songs on classic Persian verse and sings them in a hypnotic voice that is beautiful and, by Western standards, unusual.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev697.htm (323 words)

	The Doors \| JOHN DENSMORE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ray of The Wine's blend of Persian, Moroccan, African, Indian and Western music is at once earthy, mystical and seductive, as traditional rigor meets improvisational freedom and complex, passionate melodies couple with relentless grooves.
		Reza is a master of traditional Persian stringed instruments like the Tar, Sehtar and the bowed Tarmanche and Kamanche, as well as the bamboo flute known as the Ney and the Daf, a hand drum.
		The CD was produced by The Door's drummer John Densmore, who also played drums, and features a stellar international ensemble of players.
	www.thedoors.com /band/john/?fa=music (298 words)

	World Music Central - K
		The sound is produced by the vibration of tongues of metal or wood.
		Kamanche - a Persian and Armenian instrument that belongs to the violin family of instruments and while it is almost the size of a violin, it is held upright.
		Kamanche — a small knee fiddle, bowed like a cello, with four metal strings and four sympathetic strings (Armenia, Iran).
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /staticpages/index.php/instruments_k.htm (1444 words)

	nasrawi: My date with the kamanche and classical Iranian music
		The kamanche is the only bowed string instrument in classical Iranian music.
		That night in December it was played by Mark Eliyahu; also on feature was Amir Shahsar, flutist and vocalist.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	nasrawi.blogspot.com /2006/01/my-date-with-kamanche-and-classical.html (393 words)

	Link
		I was in Iran in December 2006 to learn about the music and people, and to record Iranian instruments for my current opera, Pia de Tolomei.
		I worked and recorded with many talented musicians, some of whom were women, such as kamanche player Negar Kharkan and Noushin Pasdar, who plays the oud.
		I met the incredible vocalist, Mahsa Vahdat, and had the opportunity to play and sing with her as well.
	www.giannanannini.com /file/cadre1_files/portfolio.text_files/link.htm (115 words)

	Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Kamanche, close-up of bridge and sound holes, photograph
		Kamanche, top, side, end, and perspective views, mechanical drawing
		Bedros Haroutunian holding saz, facing left, portrait, photograph
	www.bonus.com /contour/Northern_Great_Plains/http@@/lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cowellbib:kamanche (50 words)

	Sarbaaz.Com (( Where Baloch Click! )) The Honari Family, Fatieh Honary
		At age 17, he became a member of the Iranian Arts and Cultural Center’s orchestra, where he played the piano and the violin for over 6 years.
		In Canada, Reza has continued his study of Persian Traditional and Folk Music and has been playing the Kamanche (the Spike Fiddle) for over 8 years.
		Hidayat Honari was born in 1980 in Zahedan, Iran.
	www.sarbaaz.com /honari.htm (471 words)

	Raquy and the Cavemen - Band Biography
		When Middle Eastern music extraordinaire Raquy Danziger joined forces with hard rock musician Liron Peled, the result was dark, powerful Middle Eastern music with a heavy emphasis on Arabic drumming, backed by a band of Arab and Israeli musicians.
		Raquy, the leader of the group, plays the Iranian Kamanche, a rare and exotic bowed instrument reminiscent of an ancient violin.
		She is most known for her electrifying performances of original percussion compositions on the Dumbek (Arabic hand drum), which leave audiences awestruck.
	www.raquyandthecavemen.com /cmbio.shtml (198 words)

	Caton, Margaret "Peggy" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Her thesis is entitled "The Kamanche Style of Ustad Faydullah of the Province Gilan, Iran" (1972), and her dissertation is entitled "The Classical Tasnif: A Genre of Persian Vocal Music" (1983).
		Parts of the collection are described in the collector’s MA thesis, "The Kamanche Style of Ustad Faydullah of the Province Gilan, Iran," UCLA, 1972.
		Contents: kamanche performances recorded in Gilan, Azerbaijan, Baluchestan, Kurdestan, and Gushan.
	www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /Archive/biocaton.htm (168 words)

	AH Kamanche - For sale by Close-Knit Alpacas
		Kamanche is presented by Close-Knit for Cindy and Curt Vars of Autumn Hill Alpacas.
		He is a beautifully fleeced, friendly gelding who excels at obstacle courses!
		Every farm needs at least one good gelding, and Kamanche fills the bill.
	www.alpacanation.com /alpacasforsale/03_viewalpaca.asp?name=47890 (72 words)

	Bul-Bul School of Music: "And the Beat Goes On" by Dr. Nigar Askerova, Director
		There was considerable pressure in the early 1920s and 1930s to embrace Western musical instruments, forms, styles and traditions but Hajibeyov and others resisted.
		Rather than abandoning our traditional folk instruments especially the tar, balaban, kamanche and zurna, he incorporated them along with our traditional styles like "mugam" and "ashig" into Western symphonic and operatic music.
		Instruction on traditional instruments: tar (held horizontally) and kamanche (vertically).
	www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/31_folder/31_articles/31_bulbulschool.html (1284 words)

	SHIKELLAMY BOB THE GREAT
		Kamanche, in my opinion, should just retire from the SCW.
		I said before that i seen skill in him but after the performance I take it all back and would I would like to say that when I get a peice of SCW my first order of buisness will be to depromte him to ref. Thats all hes good for, if that!
		Even though Kamanche lost today I think he is going to be a strong wrestler.
	members.tripod.com /~Firerod/shibob.html (937 words)

	Persian Classical Music
		Iranian classical music is usually performed by small ensembles of variable size.
		These groups typically consist of the singer, one or two accompanying melodic instruments (either of kamanche, tar, santur, setar, or nay) and perhaps a rhythmic instrument, such as the dombak, or the now rarer daf.
		Click on the names or pictures to read a description and to hear a sound sample.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Arts/music/instruments/persianinstrum/instrument.htm (100 words)

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