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Also known as saz, bağlamasaz, bağlama-saz

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.

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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
Hornbostel-Sachs classification
321.321
native label
baglama
name in native language
bağlama
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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.

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