foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, additional funding for america reframed provided by: open society foundations, acton family giving, park foundation, the national endowment for the artsd the reva and david logan foundation. >> [tuning kamancheh] music hooks me up with some other world that, uh, it doesn't exist in our everyday life. [playing kamancheh] and, um, you know, somehow, when i was really little, i became interested in--in playing kamancheh, and there was this old master, ostad ali-asghar bahari. he appeared on tv, i mean i was totally fascinated, uh, with the way he was playing the instrument, because the sound was something that i... you know, spoke to me, spoke to my soul. i was bornn a non-musical family. my father was an agricultural engineer, my brother was an instrument maker, um, my mother knew all of the songs that-- my father was, um, you know, theywas a true music lover, and he had a big archive of, you know, all the recordings and things. so, i grew up in a musical family, but not a musician family. i really loved music, and, uh, i--i--i ran home from school, you know, to play. and then, um, by the time i was seven, they took me to music school,