Bağlama

Bağlama
Different sizes of bağlama: Cura (left) and Çöğür bağlama (right)
String instrument
Classification
  • Plucked string instruments
Related instruments
  • Tar (lute), Dutar, Setar and Tanbur (Iran)
  • Baglamadaki (Greece)
  • Bouzouki (Greece)
  • Çiftelia
  • Šargija
  • Tambouras (Greece)
  • Balkan tambura (Тамбура) (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Serbia)
  • Buzuq (Lebanon) and (Syria)
  • Tambur
Sound sample

The bağlama or saz is a family of plucked string instruments and long-necked lutes used in Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.[1] It is commonly used by ashiks.

  1. ^ "ATLAS of Plucked Instruments – Middle East". ATLAS of Plucked Instruments. Retrieved February 27, 2013.