TEHRAN -- An assortment of paraphernalia belonging to Iranian musician Ali-Naqi Vaziri was recently donated to the Music Museum of Iran in Tehran.

The collection contained a raincoat, spectacles, magnifying glasses, a sword, his costumes and several books, said Peyman Soltani, the director of the music section of the Iranian National Committee for the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
The museum curator Ali Moradkhani was supposed to dedicate a window for the items, he remarked, adding, “I have not been informed as yet where the items will be put on display.”
A collection of items from Vaziri’s possessions was handed over to the Song and Melody Museum in Shiraz in April 2008.
The collection was comprised of Vaziri’s manuscripts, partitas and diaries, some of which were partially damaged.
Soltani also noted that he possesses notes and handwritten documents by Vaziri which he plans to donate to the museum in the future.
Ali-Naqi Vaziri (1888-1980) was a tar virtuoso and was also skilled at playing setar and violin.
He studied in the French music school École supérieure de musique and Hochschule fur Music in Berlin.
The first notation for Iranian traditional music radif (the total collection of more than 200 gushehs -- traditional melodic entities -- in all 12 dastgahs is known as the radif) was written by Vaziri.