Arts, Culture & Media  Shayan Parsai's Persian classical music
By Bruce Wallace  Player utilities  Cellist Yo-Yo Ma's renowned
Silk Road Ensemble kicked off a North American tour Sunday night
in Boston. The tour features leading musicians from around the
world, including Kayhan Kalhor, a master of a Persian stringed
instrument called the kamancheh.  Kalhor is one of the reasons
the instrument is enjoying a renewed popularity. This popularity
stretches from Tehran all the way to Toledo, Ohio, where Shayan
Parsai lives.  Parsai is a junior in college, and he's been
playing western classical violin since he was four. Last fall,
he picked up a kamancheh his father had bought him in Iran.
Traditionally a person who wanted to learn the instrument would
find a master to teach them.  But there aren't really kamancheh
masters in Northwest Ohio. There is, however, YouTube. He
started watching YouTube of kamancheh players, including several
of Kayhan Kalhor.  "Not only did I get the sounds that I wanted
to hear and the