niceiraqi1
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Is this a...MANDOLIN playing in a Turkish song?
Hello everyone in this excellent forum,
The song is 'Yuh Yuh', written by Mahzuni and performed here by Ibrahim Tatlises.
I am a beginner to Turkish music but to my limited knowledge this appears to be a Baglama-driven song. However there is a faint oodling in the
background that seems to resemble a...mandolin for me, or a ukuele.
it is just improv on the baglama? the sound quality seems to lack that sitar-like resonance characteristic of it. to me it sounds like a mandolin.
Can anyone help me realize what this instrument is? it is most audible at 1:20 and 2:06
Link to song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cUbhDPorzI
Much thanks!
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maran
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this is most likely part of the baglama and selpe grubu of erol parlak mentioned in the personnel at 2:47 of your clip.
here is erol parlak in another video:
http://youtu.be/7RjwLA_0mu4
it could be a cura saz (miniature size baglama), but not necessarily. the lack of sitar-like resonance comes from the selpe technique you see
demonstrated in the parlak video
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Jack_Campin
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Electronic keyboard, maybe?
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adamgood
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I hear it too, does sound an awful lot like a mandolin back there in the mix. Wouldn't be too surprising, it was a very common instrument in Turkey
for a bit in school systems. I don't know if it still is taught like that...like recorder is in grade schools in the US.
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Sasha
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Another vote for cura saz.
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em.20
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It sounds mostly like a cura saz but can also be a balta saz or kopuz.
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I can tell you that it's definetly NOT a mandolin, as the sound's too low in the register and too loose (denoting a low action which the mandolin
hasn't got). It sounds like a baglama saz to me, played on the bottom string right up the neck. The notes played in the 1.20 and 2.06 bits are C and A
bb, which could prove this theory, as I think the bottom strings on the baglama saz are tuned in C (which on the stave in Western notation is the
third space from the bottom).....unless you're talking about a completely different thing, in which case I'm totally wrong.....
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cura
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It's "double tapping the neck" technique in selpe. It's probably a baglama cura.
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niceiraqi1
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Thank you very much for your excellent replies, and thank you maran for introducing me to Erol Parlak; the link you put is amazing.
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