AUSTRALIA MUSIC INSTRUMENTS

The music of Iran has thousands of years of history , as seen in the archeological documents of Elam, one of the earliest world culture, which was located in southwestern Iran.

Major instruments:
Harp , Taar , Ney and....were such as the most ancient instruments and Instruments used in Persian classical music include the bowed spike-fiddle kamancheh, the goblet drum tombak, the end-blown flute ney, the

frame drum daf, the long-necked lutes tar, setar, tanbur, dotar, and the dulcimer santur and ..... The ordinary violin is also used, with an alternative tuning preferred by Persian musicians.

Radif is a collection of many old melodic figures preserved through many generations by oral tradition many types of radif and avaz that still remained are as follows:
Dastgah-e Shur
Avaz-e Dashti
Avaz-e Abu'ata
Avaz-e Bayat-e Tork
Avaz-e Afshari
Dastgah-e Homayoun
Avaz-e Bayat-e Esfahan
Dastgah-e Segah
Dastgah-e Chahargah
Dastgah-e Rastpanjgah
Dastgah-e Mahur
Dastgah-e Nava

Dance :

Ceremonial dances: 1- Bazmi(Special dance for parties and celebrations) 2-Razmi(Martial dances)

Ritual and religious (the oldest dancing in Iran such as Manichaeism,and Daravish dances)

Ethnic and Folk dances:Bandari , Bojnurdi , Khaliji , Khorasani , Luri , Mazandarani , Qasemabadi , Kurdish , Azari , Turkamani and.... are main parts of family groups folks dancing in Iran

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The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica (derived from "harmonia," the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones).

Because its sounding portion is made of glass, the glass harmonica is a crystallophone. The phenomenon of rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a wine goblet to produce tones is documented back to Renaissance times; Galileo considered the phenomenon (in his Two New Sciences), as did Athanasius Kircher.

The Irish musician Richard Poekrich is typically credited as the first to play an instrument composed of glass vessels by rubbing his fingers around the rims.[1] Beginning in the 1740s, he performed in London on a set of upright goblets filled with varying amounts of water. During the same decade, Christoph Willibald Gluck also attracted attention playing a similar instrument in England.

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Came across this old man with his glass harmonica setup outside the Marina in Old Town, Alexandria. In between dishing out some amazing tunes and being a subject of tons of picture takers, he also engaged the considerably large audience with interesting stories of other glass harmonica players around the world, its history and how its a dying art.