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![]() ![]() ![]() The art of Azerbaijani Ashiqs combines poetry, storytelling, dance and vocal and instrumental music into a traditional performance art. The Azerbaijani saz was mainly used by Ashiqs. These can have either single or double pickups. There are also electric bağlamas, which can be connected to an amplifier. In some regions, it is played with the fingers in a style known as Şelpe or Şerpe. The bağlama is usually played with a mızrap or tezene (similar to a guitar pick) made from cherrywood bark or plastic. Frets are tied to the sap with fishing line, which allows them to be adjusted. The tuning pegs are known as burgu (literally screw). The Divan sazı, the largest instrument in the family, is tuned one octave lower still.Ī bağlama has three main parts, the bowl (called tekne), made from mulberry wood or juniper, beech, spruce or walnut, the spruce sound board ( göğüs) and a neck of beech or juniper ( sap). The cura is the smallest member of the bağlama family: larger than the cura is the tambura, tuned an octave lower. It can be tuned in various ways and takes different names according to region and size: Bağlama, Divan Sazı, Bozuk, Çöğür, Kopuz Irızva, Cura, Tambura, etc. The most commonly used string folk instrument in Turkey, the bağlama has seven strings divided into courses of two, two and three. The Turkish settlement of Anatolia from the late eleventh century onward saw the introduction of a two-string Iranian dutar that Turkmen people adopted which in turn was played in some areas of Turkey until recent times. In the music of Greece the name baglamas ( Greek: μπαγλαμάς) is given to a treble bouzouki, a related instrument. It can be played with a plectrum or with a fingerpicking style known as şelpe. Like the Western lute and the Middle-Eastern oud, it has a deep round back, but a much longer neck. It is used to refer single or group of musical instruments like 'üflemeli sazlar' (wind insruments). 'Saz' is generally used interchangeably with 'enstrüman' (instrument) and ![]() Īccording to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "the terms 'bağlama' and 'saz' are used somewhat interchangeably in Turkey. Saz ( Persian: ساز) means "to make to compose" in Persian. īağlama ( Turkish: bağlama) is Turkish from bağlamak, "to tie". It is played in several regions in the world such as Europe, Balkans, Black Sea, Caucasus regions and many countries including Syria, Iraq, Iran and the Balkan countries. The bağlama or saz is a family of plucked string instruments, long-necked lutes used in Ottoman classical music, Turkish folk music, Turkish Arabesque music, Azeri music, Balkan music, Kurdish music, Armenian music. Balkan tambura (Тамбура) (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Serbia).Tar (lute), Dutar, Setar and Tanbur ( Iran).Diffrerent sizes of bağlama: Smallest variant Cura Bağlama (left) and a common middle sized variant Çöğür Bağlama ![]()
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