Agapios Tomboulis

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Agapios Tomboulis

| alias =

| image = Smyrna Trio.jpg

| caption = Smyrna style trio: K. Lambros, R. Eskenazi, A. Tomboulis (Athens, 1930)

| years_active = 1900s-1965

| birth_date = 1891

| birth_place = Constantinople, Ottoman Empire

| death_date = 1965 (73-74)

| death_place = Athens, Greece

| genre = Rebetiko (Smyrneiko)

| occupation = Oudist

| instrument =

| label =

| past_member_of = Smyrna Trio

| website =

}}

Agapios Tomboulis (Hagop Stambulyan) ({{langx|el|Αγάπιος Τομπούλης}}; 1891–1965) was a famous Armenian and Greek oud player of rebetiko and Greek folk music, Armenian folk music, Turkish folk music, Jewish folk music born in Constantinople, he is known for being a well known associate of Roza Eskenazi.

Life and career

File:Semsis Eskenazi Tomboulis.jpg (R-L) Dimitrios Semsis, Agapios Tomboulis, Roza Eskenazi (Athens, 1932)]]

=Early life=

Hagop Stambulyan was born in 1891 in the Pera district of İstanbul to an Armenian father and a Greek mother.{{cite book|title=tr:Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds|isbn = 9781472465733|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NENjCwAAQBAJ&q=Agapios+Tomboulis+armenian%2C&pg=PT13|accessdate=18 February 2017|last1 = Koglin|first1 = Dr Daniel|date = 28 January 2016| publisher=Ashgate Publishing }}

=Smyrna Trio=

{{main|Smyrna Trio}}

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