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 Gurban Pirimov (1880-1965) - f- one of the most well-known tar players, considered to be second greatest tar player after Sadikhjan, the creator of this most revered musical instrument in Azerbaijan.
Gurban Pirimov was born in a village of Gulably in Karabakh. He started to play tar at the age of 15. He was in a trio of famous musicians, great mugam singer Jabbar Garyagdy and wel-known kemancha layer Sasha Oganezashvili. Together they traveled a lot throughout the Caucasus, Middle East and Russia. Gurban Pirimov remembered Garyagdy and Oganezashvili with great respect and pride: "I am a happy man, - he used to say, - because, I played tar on the left of Jabbar [Garyagdy] and on the right of Sasha [Oganezashvili] for twenty years". But despite these modest words, he did not fall behind these famous artists and became known as the best tar player after Sadikhjan, the creator of modern tar.
Gurban Pirimov was also one of the most long-standing musicians in the history of Azeri music. Gurban Pirimov was 85 when he last played tar on stage, which meant that he and his tar served the Azeri music for almost 70 years.
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