{"id":7750,"date":"2009-03-03T20:08:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T20:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2015-03-05T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T10:10:29","slug":"iran-to-hold-ancient-harp-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/iran-to-hold-ancient-harp-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to Hold Ancient Harp Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nA group of Iranian musicians led by Abdolali Baqerinejad is slated to hold a concert using replicas of various ancient Persian harps.<br \/>\nThe group will introduce and play Sassanid and Elamite harps as well as a 13th-century harp. The concert will also provide participants with basic information on the history of the Persian Chang, a musical instrument similar to the harp. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/images\/news\/Sassanid-Elamite-harps.jpg\" alt=\"Iran to Hold Ancient Harp Concert\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Baqerinejad has made the instruments, using ancient pictures and manuscripts about the design of Chang.<br \/>\nOne of the harps designed by Baqerinejad has been made based on a 6,000-year-old instrument, believed by some experts to be the world&#8217;s first string instrument. <\/p>\n<p>Chang was a popular instrument in ancient Persia and a recurring theme in many of the country&#8217;s miniatures and manuscripts. <\/p>\n<p>The concert will be held from March 11 to 13, 2009 in the Iranian city of Karaj near the capital of Tehran. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Iranian musicians led by Abdolali Baqerinejad is slated to hold a concert using replicas of various ancient Persian harps. The group will introduce and play Sassanid and Elamite harps as well as a 13th-century harp. The concert will also provide participants with basic information on the history of the Persian Chang, a&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1061,7,9,17,18,19,20,22,23,1063,26],"tags":[1411,1415,1416,1417,1110],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-iran","category-culture","category-explore-iran-cities","category-iran","category-iran-gps-maps","category-iran-history","category-iran-news","category-iranmap-site","category-irans-cultural-heritage","category-maps-of-iran","category-persian-literature","tag-ancient","tag-ancient-harp-concert","tag-persian","tag-persian-chang","tag-sassanid","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}