Welcome to the Persian-tuned Piano channel.

Piano, a popular instrument worldwide, provides a performer with a wide range of pitch and dynamics plus all three basic elements of music at once, namely rhythm, melody, and harmony. Piano is a percussive and melodic instrument. These and other traits have made this instrument very attractive across many traditions - evident by the important role piano has played in Latin, American jazz, and European classical music - where it was taken from the hammered dulcimer about 300 years ago and perfected to its present form in the late 1800's.

Two composer-pianists, Moshir Homayoun and Morteza Mahjubi have made major contributions to the use of piano in expressing the radif music. Therefore, this channel contains many works from these two pioneers.

Maintaining the aesthetics and essence of the music is very important and can be a challenge overcoming which starts with accurate/sensitive tuning but doesn't end there.

This YouTube channel has been established, as an extension of www.PersianTunedPiano.com with the goal of paving the way for future Persian-tuned piano enthusiasts in furthering that which has been accomplished by Moshir Homayoun and Mahjubi.

The channel invites your comments, suggestions, and relevant information or music samples.

Thanks to YouTube for providing a wonderful way for all of us to share so much.

Persian-tuned piano refers to a piano tuned according to the scales used in the radif and regional music of Iran. Radif is a collection of motifs, each referred to as a goosheh ("corner" or "bit" in Farsi) characterized by its melodic and/or rhythmic pattern. Each dastgah is a collection of goosheh's. A dastgah can be defined by a specific scale and shahed (anchor) note(s). There are seven dastgah's, namely Nava, Shur, Mahoor, Rastpanjgah, Homayoun, Segah and Chahargah.