Der Musiker Gaguik Mouradian ist 1954 in Erevan, Armenien geboren. Seine Liebe zur Kamancha begann als er einen Film über einen Minnesänger im 18. Jahrhundert schaute. Er studierte an mehreren Universitäten Kamancha und Volksmusik.

As a teacher of the Armenian kamancha, Gaguik Mouradian has taught several traditional music ensembles, notably the Goussan Ensemble composed of traditional instruments such as the kamancha, the tar (a long-necked lute), the qanun (a plucked zither), the santur (zither with strings that are struck with the aid of small sticks), the duduk (a cylindrical oboe with a double reed), the dhol or daf (percussion instruments) and a singer, who can be either male or female.

Kamancha

Das Kamancha ist ein persisches Instrument, das von den Byzantinern mitgebracht wurde. Es hat vier Stahlseiten. Mit diesem Instrument wird hauptsächlich Volksmusik in Persien und den umliegenden Regionen gespielt.

Kamancha (Persian: کمانچه‎) is a Persian bowed string instrument related to the bowed rebab, the historical ancestor of the kamancheh and also to the bowed lira of the Byzantine Empire, ancestor of the European violin family. The strings are played with a variable-tension bow: the word „kamancheh“ means „little bow“ in Persian. It is widely used in the classical music of Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kurdistan Regions with slight variations in the structure of the instrument.

Traditionally kamanchehs had three silk strings, but modern ones have four metal ones. Kamanchehs may have highly ornate inlays and fancy carved ivory tuning pegs. The body has a long upper neck and a lower bowl-shaped resonating chamber made from a gourd or wood, usually covered with a membrane, made from the skin of a lamb, goat or sometimes fish, on which the bridge is set.