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The bağlama or saz is a family of plucked string instruments and long-necked lutes used in Ottoman classical music, Turkish folk music, Turkish Arabesque music, Azerbaijani music, Bosnian music , Kurdish music, and Armenian music.
The cura (Turkish pronunciation:) is a plucked string folk instrument from Turkey. [1] It is the smallest and highest pitched member of the bağlama family of instruments. [ 2 ] It is found in nearly every region of the country with varying exact dimensions, tunings, playing techniques, and names including dede sazı, parmak cura, üç telli ...
Before the Rahbanis popularized the use of this instrument, the buzuq had been associated with the music of Lebanon and Syria. Buzuk and other saz instruments date back to ancient times and originated in Persia. Similar instrument called barbat (Persian: بربت) or barbud was a lute of Greater Iranian or Persian origin.
Cümbüş Saz: tuned like the a bağlama, long neck, tie-on frets, three courses of strings, 40 inches long overall Cümbüş Cura : tuned like the bağlama, but higher pitched as a cura saz; three courses of strings, 29 inches long overall
The pattern that the frets are set up to play depends on the tonal system used by the musical tradition a musician participate in. [1] The instrument's body can be made from separate staves, or carved from one piece of wood. The šargija usually accompanies the violin, and has a jangling quality, similar to the Turkish saz. Musician's play with ...
Regional variations place importance on different instruments, e.g. the darbuka in Rumeli and the kemençe around the Eastern Black Sea region. The folklore of Turkey is extremely diverse. Nevertheless, Turkish folk music is dominantly marked by a single musical instrument called saz or bağlama, a type of long-necked lute.
Saz, Kaynaşlı; Saz style, a serrated leaf pattern used in Ottoman art and pottery; Leyla Saz (1850–1936), Turkish composer, poet and writer; Sameh Zakout, Palestinian rap artist; Saurashtra language (ISO 639-3: saz) Sozialistische Arbeiter-Zeitung (SAZ), newspaper published in Germany; Saz, a member of the bağlama family of musical instruments
The tzouras (Greek: τζουράς), is a Greek stringed musical instrument related to the bouzouki. Its name comes from the Turkish cura. It is made in six-string and eight-string varieties. Similar musical instruments in Turkish culture are generally referred to as Bağlama.