The best three string and string musicians in Iran

Se tar is an Iranian stringed instrument that is very popular in Iranian instrumental music. In the beginning, this instrument was part of the family of tambur and tar instruments, but nowadays it is more similar to tar. The history of Setar is readable and fruitful. Among the first and oldest examples of this instrument, we can mention Naseruddin Shah's instrument, which came into the hands of Ahmad Ebadi. In the following, we will review and review the most prominent teachers and musicians of three strings over time:

Mirza Abdullah, a famous string player during the era of Naser al-Din Shah, was born in 1222 and died in 1297 at the age of 75. He was born in Shiraz in 1222. He is the second son of Mr. Ali Akbar Farahani, a master tar player during the era of Naseruddin Shah, and father of Ahmad Ebadi, one of the most famous three-tar musicians. He was also a master, but his fame is mostly in playing three strings. He had many students, including: Mehdi Qoli Hedayat, Fasat Shirazi, Abolhasan Saba, Hossein Hang Afarin, Seyed Hossein Khalifa, Mehdi Khan Selhi, Ismail Ghahrami, Seyed Mehdi Dabiri, Haj Agha Magdar Irani and his son Ahmad Ebadi. Iranian music and the combination of some of them, he created seven complete and independent instruments, which were written by a number of his students, including: Mirza Nasir, Fasere Shirazi, and Mahdigholi Hedayat, over the course of seven years.
Four children of Mirza Abdullah Farahani, named: Mouloud, Maluk, Javad and Ahmed were all familiar with music and were proficient in it. Mirza Abdullah Farahani finally died in 1297 at the age of 75 in Tehran.

Born in 1281 in Tehran, one of Darvish Khan's students. He was born in 1281 in Tehran. He, who was interested in art since childhood, went to Kamal-ul-Mulk school to study and at the age of 15, he started playing the tar and three-tar with Darvish Khan and was able to receive the Golden Tabrizin badge from Darvish Khan.

Raslan Dargahi became very popular by playing the tar and three tars along with Qamar al-Maluk's singing and recording the screen. Of course, he never chose a career as a musician and was working as an employee, and for this reason, he used the nickname Amir Arsalan in his music.

Later on, because he was more interested in three strings, he gave up playing strings. Regarding the level of his art and skill in playing, we refer to the quote of Ruholah Khalegi, who considers him to be polite, witty, with taste and lovable.

Zolfanun contributed a lot to the recognition of Iranian music to the world. Jalal Zulfanun was born in 1316 in Abadeh city of Fars province. His father Habib Zulfanun and his brother Mahmoud Zulfanun were among his first professors in music. From the age of 9 to 18, he studied at the National Music Conservatory and then studied classical music at Tehran University for four years. During his studies, Jalal used the presence of many professors of that period, including: Arslan Dargahi, Ruholah Khaleghi, Abolhassan Saba, Javad Maroufi, Hassan Saba, Musa Maroufi, Noor Ali Broumand, Dr. Masoudieh, Youssef Farutan, Dr. Dariush Safout, Saeed Hormazi and Alireza Meshaikhi.

He has done many valuable artistic activities over the years, among them: musical activity in the radio and television organization, music teaching at different levels from kindergarten and elementary school to university, many concerts inside and outside of Iran. (Japan, America, Canada, Europe and Australia), combining Iranian music with European ballets in collaboration with Maurice Bejaz, holding a concert in New York to introduce Iranian music to the world in collaboration with the world music institute, holding a concert at the United Nations in 1994 and The author of many books in the field of music and its education, mentioned.

Tar player and one of the students of Mirza Hosseinqoli and Mirza Abdullah. Professor Ali Akbar Khan Shahnazi is one of the old teachers of three strings and is also known for teaching traditional Iranian music. His father and uncle named Mirza Hossein Qali and Mirza Abdullah were his first teachers. He went to Darvish Khan to continue his education. Ali Akbar Khan can be considered as a tar soloist and accompanist as well as a teacher of tar and radifs.

He has various gramophone records, including his solos, or accompaniment with singers such as Damavandi and Iqbal al-Sultan. Shahnazi's best works can be considered the prologue of Abu Ata, the ballad of Abu Ata, Rang Segah and the ballad of Chahargah.
He is also the author of works such as Radif al-Aali Tar narrated by Mirza Hossein Qoli, and Radif Tar according to his own narration. He has also trained outstanding students, including: Mohammad Hassan Adhari, Reza Vahdani, Hoshang Zarif, Habib Elah Salehi, Mohammad Reza Lotfi and Dariush Pirniakan.

Tar player and one of Saba's students. Professor Hassan Kasai was born in October 1307 and has been interested in music since childhood. He started playing the reed at the age of 12, and at the age of 13, he went to the classes of Ostad Nawai.
Kasai then became a student of Ostad Saba to learn how to play radifs, and collaborated with great artists such as Khaleghi, Moshir Homayoun, and Hossein Mahjoubi. . Kesai has been engaged in musical activities for many years as the owner of a school in the field of reeds, three strings and singing in Isfahan.
Although he is mostly known as a master of improvisation, a large amount of percussion and vocals of reed players are from his performances. have taken. He was unrivalled in the Iranian reed music, and in his free time he also played three strings, and he can be considered one of the most prominent three string musicians.

At the age of 23, after learning Iranian music, he immigrated to America in order to learn classical music and play the violin. Mohammad Reza Lotfi is one of the well-known figures in Iranian music and he was born in 1325 in the city of Gorgan. Lotfi may be considered the most well-known string player.
In addition to being a teacher, his father was also a string player and singer. Lotfi's brother also plays the tar. Lotfi himself says that he was more interested in playing the string under the influence of his brother than his father.

And throughout his professional life, he has been trying to preserve traditional Iranian music and teach it to his fans and students. He was a very skilled and skilled musician and always had a special passion for traditional music and string playing.
His artistic life is very influential for music lovers and has made him an immortal figure in the field of traditional Iranian music. .

At the same time as Tar, Lotfi was also playing the classical violin and according to him, at the age of 23, after he had completed all the training of rows, colors, beats, etc., he left Iranian music to pursue classical music to go to the West and continue his studies in America.