niceiraqi1 - 3-21-2012 at 07:42 AM
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!
maran - 3-21-2012 at 08:57 AM
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
Jack_Campin - 3-21-2012 at 04:59 PM
Electronic keyboard, maybe?
adamgood - 3-21-2012 at 05:34 PM
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.
Sasha - 3-21-2012 at 06:04 PM
Another vote for cura saz.
em.20 - 3-22-2012 at 02:19 AM
It sounds mostly like a cura saz but can also be a balta saz or kopuz.
Giorgioud - 3-22-2012 at 12:30 PM
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.....
Franck - 3-23-2012 at 03:54 AM
cura
Peyman - 3-24-2012 at 07:54 AM
It's "double tapping the neck" technique in selpe. It's probably a baglama cura.
niceiraqi1 - 3-24-2012 at 08:27 PM
Thank you very much for your excellent replies, and thank you maran for introducing me to Erol Parlak; the link you put is amazing.