Persian Classical Music

Every people thinks that their music is the best and most important in the world, Iranians are good at that too. Indeed, they have a very cool instrument which is called "Tar", sort of the Persian banjo:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJMEvXvee_Y


while she is cute and plays nice music, he is one of the masters:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq70JeUCG58


Incredible percussion:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgqkj9QSrUE


(there are 6 parts, worth listening to all of them, not only percussion)

I almost forgot the ney, Iran's clarinet, but much harder to produce the first tone on; one of the most important instruments in Persian music. One of its masters, Hassan Kassaiy:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgqkj9QSrUE


The following guy is really good at explaining the blowing technique and his playing isn't bad:

http://members.shaw.ca/persianney/

Wow.

Edit, apparently I'm not allowed to just write 'Wow', perhaps this will be long enough...