Iranian Musical Instruments

Iranian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories, namely classical, Western and folk. Most of Persian musical instruments spread in the former Persian Empires states all over the Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia and Southern Asia. In ancient era Silk road had an effective role in this distribution.

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