Bağlama
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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 (Sevdalinka), Kurdish music, and Armenian music. It is played in several regions in the world such as Europe, Asia, Black Sea, Caucasus regions and many countries including Syria, Iraq, Iran and Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] It is commonly used by the ashiks.
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Bağlama (Turkish: bağlama) is Turkish from bağlamak, "to tie". It is pronounced [baːɫaˈma]. Saz (Persian: ساز, romanized: sāz) means "musical instrument", from a simple verb that means "to make, to compose" in Persian.
According to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "the terms 'bağlama' and 'saz' are used somewhat interchangeably in Turkey. 'Saz' is generally used interchangeably with 'enstrüman' (instrument) and it is used to refer single or group of musical instruments like 'üflemeli sazlar' (wind instruments).[2]
Like the Western lute and the Middle-Eastern oud, bağlama has a deep round back, with a much longer neck. It can be played with a plectrum or with a fingerpicking style known as şelpe.
In the music of Greece the name baglamas (Greek: μπαγλαμάς) is given to a treble bouzouki, a related instrument. The Turkish settlement of Anatolia from the late eleventh century onward saw the introduction of a two-string Iranian dutar that Turkmen people adopted which in turn was played in some areas of Turkey until recent times.