[1] He also studied musical color and rhythm with Haj Ali Akbar Khan Shahnaz (son of that same Mirza Hossein-Qoli).

[2] He was friends and regularly played with Soleiman Khan Amir Ghasemi, a "famous professors of Iranian song and music.

In terms of performance techniques one can find traces of his ostad Darvish Khan in Hormozi's peculiar style.

[3] Three prominent musicians who were his students include Mohammad Reza Lotfi and ostad Hossein Alizadeh and Dariush Talai.

Without it, it is easy to gloss over color, rhythm, instrument and song as having the same meanings that they have in western musical theory.