Hovanes Abkarian (1875 - 1920)

Date: 2015-07-02

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Hovanes Abkarian (Isfahan -IRAN 1875 - 1920 ) - known as “Yahia Tar saz”(Yahia Tar maker) - son of “Khachik Najar bashi”.
He also was known as Yahia - the second. He was attracted to Persian music by his father and learned instruments making techniques from him and little by little tried to imitate “Oos farajollah” (Ostad Farajollah)’s patterns as the first steps.