bağlama
Sign in to saveThe bağlama or saz is a long-necked fretted lute used in the folk music of Turkey and neighbouring regions of the Middle East and Central Asia. It belongs to the wider family of long-necked lutes known as Tanburs, a group of instruments historically distributed from Iran and Mesopotamia across Central Asia and Anatolia.
Key facts
- Instrument.related
- Baglamadaki (Greece) Balkan tambura (Тамбура) (Levant, Anatolia, Thrace and Balkans) Bouzouki (Levant, Anatolia, Thrace, Balkans and Europe) Buzuq (Caucasus, Anatolia and Levant) Choghur (Çöğür) Çiftelia (Thrace, Anatolia Balkans and Europe) Dutar Šargija (Thrace, Balkans and Europe) Setar Tambouras (Caucasus, Levant, Anatolia, Thrace, Balkans and Europe) Tanbur (Caucasus, Iran and Turkey) Tar (lute) (Caucasus, Iran and Turkey)
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- thumb |center |Saz Sound
- Instrument.name
- Bağlama
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- Tamburasaz-Baglamasaz.jpg
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- Different sizes of bağlama: Cura (left, smallest) and Çöğür bağlaması/Tambura Bağlaması (right, middle sized)
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- string
- Instrument.classification
- Plucked string instruments
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- Bağlama scale
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The bağlama or saz is a long-necked fretted lute used in the folk music of Turkey and neighbouring regions of the Middle East and Central Asia. It belongs to the wider family of long-necked lutes known as Tanburs, a group of instruments historically distributed from Iran and Mesopotamia across Central Asia and Anatolia.
Musicologists classify the saz as part of the tanbur family of long-necked lutes.