Contemporary scholars have argued that the Greeks have learned music from the Egyptians and Egyptians learned from the Mesopotamian people and they are not go beyond that. This is a massive historical denial. Researchers like Kurt Sachs believe that the people of Mesopotamia, when they came to the Middle East from the East, had these instruments with themselves, and the instruments there did not evolve or evolved there, But they do not mention that Iran is East of the Middle East.