Nasser Shirazi

Long-time GAL member Nasser Shirazi was born in 1939 in Tehran, Iran, and came to the United States in 1960. He soon earned a degree in civil engineering, and retired in 2004 as Assistant City Manager for Pittsburg, California. Mr. Shirazi has published two books on classical Persian instruments: Setar Construction (2001) and Building the Kamanche (2007).

▪ bio current as of 2014

By the same author:
  1. Building the Tanbour
  2. GAL Instrument Plan #69: Tanbour
  3. Comparing the Iranian Radif Musical Scale To the Western Scale
  4. Building the Tar
  5. GAL Instrument Plan #14: Tar (Persian Banjo)
  6. Building the Kamanche
  7. GAL Instrument Plan #9: Kamanche