Shirzad Fataliev and His Balaban Band

Shirzad Fataliev (Azerbaijani: Şirzad Fətəliyev) is a traditional balaban player from Azerbaijan. The balaban is a cylindrical-bore, double-reed wind instrument about 35 centimetres (14 in) long with eight finger holes and one thumb hole. The balaban, one of the ancient wind instruments, is played in all corners of Azerbaijan. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.