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Mohammad Zonnuri (persian: محمد ذوالنوری born september 23, 1969) is an Iranian musician and composer. He plays Tanbur kordestani(an old sacred Iranian musical instrument), Setar and Tar (Iranian musical instruments). Mohammad Zonnuri is the first musician who wrote a book for instructing Tanbur in Iran in 2003 despite many objections of old players of Tanbur who oppose writing notes of traditional songs of Tanbur which were saved just through listening later. This book includes a method for playing and instructing Tanbur academically. He began learning music in 1981 of his uncle Seyed Jamshid Sotvan. Companionship with great family of Seyed Ayaz Qazvinei, the great musician of Tanbur, helped him to learn playing this musical instrument better. He continued learning music with Hosseyn Alizade ( a prominent Iranian musician). In 1992, he started studying “traditional Persian music” academically in Azad University of Tehran. He was influenced by his great teachers like Dr. Hasan Riahi, Mostafa kamal Puor Torab, Farhad Fakhredini, Dr. Mohammad Sarir, Dr. Amir Ashraf Arian Pour and Daryoush Pirniakan. In 1998 he made his band which name is “Keyhan”. He is the composer, conductor and one of the players of the band. They have performed many concerts in Tehran and some other cities of Iran. He composed and conducted “Entezar”, “Noore Mahtab” and “ Dordaneh” (albumes of tradditional music of Iran). He is writing notes of traditional old songs of Tanbur (72 Maqams of Tanbur) which will be printed soon. This is the first time which 72 maqams’s notes are written and published in form of a book.