Peyman Nasehpour

Tonbak, Daf,Ghaval player and tabla researcher.

The oldest child of Ostad Nasrollah Nasehpoor (vocalist and master of radif repertoire of Persian art music), was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1974.

In his family he was acquainted with Azerbaijani and Persian art music. After finishing the Child Music Course with Mr. Mohammad Reza Darvishi (Researcher of Persian regional music), he started learning tonbak at the early age of nine. He was very fortunate to be able to receive his training in tonbak (Persian Goblet Drum) with the late Ostad Nasser Farhangfar, in ghaval (Azerbaijani Frame Drum) with Ostad Latif Tahmasebi-zadeh, in daf (Kurdish Frame Drum) with Ostad Mirza Agha Ghosi and in theoretical Old Persian music (Ta'lif-e-Negham & Igha') with Prof. Sayyed Abd-Allah Anwar.

These cultural streams have combined with his academic mathematical studies and careful thought to create a world class progressive tonbak player.

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Peyman on the Dojo

• Introduction to Persian Percussion

• Persian percussion in ancient paintings

• Igha - the theory of old rhythms

Tonbak

• Construction

• Playing strokes

• Styles

• Rhythms

• Tonbak Notation

• Masters

• Social status of Tonbak

• Goblet drums around the world

Daf

• Daf - the Spiritual Framedrum

• Framedrums in Asia, N Africa and Eastern Europe

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Ghaval

• Ghaval, the Azerbaijani Frame drum

Other related Percussion pages

• Dohol

• Persian Kettledrums

• Indian Tabla and Tals