#baglamas

[chordophoneoftheday]

Ribbed Baglamas

[misellapuella]

Inktober 2019 | day 21: Treasure My oc Doris and her lute! 

[chordophoneoftheday]

Baglamas

[sprechebluegrass]

Instrument wall near complete. #Banjo not pictured. #bouzouki #baglamas #ukulele #guitar #mandolin (at Düsseldorf, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/BttQbheFoRgqZxx4udEFh_kIzR8txme3kbhBog0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qw4wz3rd00q6

[musica-incognita]

Manólis Dimitrianákis - O Thermastís

[kpellinore]

Ok - to round out the topic of the night - here is the Greek baglamas, totally not a baglama.  But cute!  Above is a music nerd guy who will explain the instrument and finally play it a little but below is the baglamas in its native habitat (despite the grainy film) and we even get some kind of dancers get up and join in, who may or may not know what they are doing, and I love it and all I want is some red wine, pita and tzatziki and I’m in heaven.

[aegean-okra]

The bağlama (Turkish: bağlama, from bağlamak, "to tie") is a stringed musical instrument shared by various cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean, Near East, and Central Asia regions.

It is sometimes referred to as the saz (from the Persian ساز‎, meaning a kit or set), although the term "saz" actually refers to a family of plucked string instruments, long-necked lutes used in Ottoman classical music, Turkish folk music, Azeri music, Kurdish music, Assyrian music, Armenian music, and in parts of Syria, Iraq and the Balkan countries. Instruments resembling today's bağlama have been found in archaeological excavations of Sumerian and Hittite mounds in Anatolia dating before Common Era, and in ancient Greek works.

The bağlama is a synthesis of historical musical instruments in Central Asia and pre-Turkish Anatolia. It is partly descended from the Turkic komuz. The kopuz, or komuz, differs from the bağlama in that it has a leather-covered body and two or three strings made of sheep gut, wolf gut, or horsehair. It is played with the fingers rather than a plectrum and has a fingerboard without frets. Bağlama literally translates as "something that is tied up", probably a reference to the tied-on frets of the instrument. The word bağlama is first used in 18th-century texts.

According to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "the terms "bağlama" and "saz" are used somewhat interchangeably in Turkey." Like the Western lute and the Middle-Eastern oud, it has a deep round back, but 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 Turkmen dutar, which was played in some areas of Turkey until recent times.

The most commonly used string folk instrument in Turkey, the bağlama has seven strings divided into courses of two, two and three. It can be tuned in various ways and takes different names according to region and size: Bağlama, Divan Sazı, Bozuk, Çöğür, Kopuz Irızva, Cura, Tambura, etc.

[panhellenicpride-blog]

"A baglama is a small instrument of the lute family. Its high-pitched, sweetly tone and its distinctive, constant "jingling" (it is often used as an accompaniment instrument, repetitively struming the song's chord progression) is often connected in song with consolation. In Greek folk music, it is the symbolic companion of the heart-broken or down-trodden" Probably why I play it :)