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you know, you have a teacher or guru, you have a master or ustad, that's what we call it, you basically spend a lot otime with, and sometimes, you know, they become like, uh, father and son. [playing kamancheh] [speaking in farsi] [playing kamancheh] [speaking in farsi] >> [speaking in farsi] >> improvisation is probably the essence, the core of persian music, and we all learn pieces, uh, melodies to be able to improvise based on those melodies. [speaking in farsi] [humming] a musician is valued, uh, by the way ey improvise and the--the way they-- they get actually further and further from--from that point of starting. [speaking in farsi] there is a teacher figure in everybody's life, and i hope i can be that for some people. not just teaching them ins-- you know, the instrument and some music, i--i--i like to affect their lives, uh, in a way that, uh, they don't forget me, and they don't forget what they learned from me. [playing kamancheh] my work can be divided in several dierent lines: i do my solos, i have formed a couple of, uh, ensembles, one called dastan ensemble. we formed it