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Çiftelia
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Also known as Cifteli, Ciftelia, Chiftelia, Qiftelia, qifteli

thumb|80px|Çifteli The çifteli, çiftetelli saz (Turkish: 'doubled', 'double stringed saz', , qifteli) is a plucked string instrument, with only two strings, played in the Balkans and Thrace but mainly in the Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Key facts

Instrument.name
Çifteli
Instrument.names
Çiftetelli saz
Instrument.image
Çifteli- Чифтелија е традиционален, албански, народен, жичан инструмент..jpg
Instrument.image_capt
Albanian man playing a çifteli
Instrument.background
string
Instrument.classification
Plucked string instrument; fretted lute
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
321.321-5
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
Fretted pear-shaped bowl lute with a neck, played by plucking.
Instrument.developed
Balkans, Thrace

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Wikidata facts

Image
Çifteli 2021.jpg
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Commons category
Çiftelia
Hornbostel-Sachs classification
321.321-5
indigenous to
Gheg
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