Karimian includes many non-standard "modern" features, including Wittner pegs (superior to friction pegs), french polish, transparent pick-guards, attractive arm rests, and a tuning cycle at the peg box in the same order as the strings, low to high. I recommend both Hossein Karimian and Oriental Instruments."

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Gheychak is one of the ancient Iranian classical instruments. The oldest sample instrument still remaining is comprised of a dual box and the surface of the lower one is covered by a hide. The produced tune is first transferred from the lower box to the upper one, from where it is broadcast through two wide openings.

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Tar is a plucking instrument with 3 sets of strings. The main parts of Tar are: - body can be made of walnut or mulberry - neck made of waulnut wood - fingerboard made of two rows of camel bone and inbetween a row of Areca wood - tuning pegs made of walnut wood - …

Lute is one of the most ancient Iranian instruments. It is called "roud" by the Persians and Arabs call it "oud". Some believe that lute has either come from Hairah to the west of the Euphrates river near Mada'en, the education center of the Sassanid princes, or from a city known as "Bab".

The kamānche or kamāncha (Persian: کمانچه ) is a Persian/Iranian bowed stringed instrument related to the bowed rebab, the historical ancestor of the kamancheh and also to the bowed lira of the Byzantine Empire, ancestor of the European violin family.

Setar is one of the Iranian plectrum-type string instruments, which is plucked by the player's forefinger's nail. Setar or Setouyeh is a three-cord instrument, which was converted into a four-cord instrument under the reign of the Qajars.