Mamadata Tavalayev

About the artist

Mamadata Tavalayev (Russian: Мамадато Таваллоев, born 1935) is a musician from Khorugh, the capital of Gorno-Badakhshan in Tajikistan. He is the Tajik grandmaster of the Pamir setar, a large, long-necked lute. He has taken great pains to improve and modify the instrument by adding missing frets so that the instrument now has 26 frets, giving it a chromatic scale and a range of three octaves. With this improvement the instrument is now able to play melodies of neighbouring countries.

Top songs

1. Gul-i-Sadbarg (Rose)
2. Intizari (Waiting)

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