Bağlama

Bağlama
	Different sizes of bağlama: Cura (left, smallest) and Çöğür bağlaması/Tambura Bağlaması (right, middle sized)
String instrument
Classification	Plucked string instruments;
Related instruments
	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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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.

Within this broader organological tradition, the modern saz developed in Anatolia as the principal folk lute of Turkish folk music and became closely associated with the repertoire of itinerant poet-musicians known as âşıks.