sazista
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Hi folks, some of you may know that besides playing SGs, I also play the Turkish Baglama *you can look in up on youtube*. It has been a hellish nightmare of feedback playing live with distortion and effects. It's traditionally an acoustic instrument. My ISP didn't help much, other than kill all the sound. As I was gearing up to buy another SG, i thought I'd find a new baglama (also known as "Saz", or "Divan", etc). I found this cool and original luthier in Izmir Turkey and agreed to buy one of his Çaglamas. This is his design and new name for a new instrument which takes it's neck and fret spacing from a baglama and adds pickups, etc to play other styles of music. I talked him 'out of' making me his usual shape and making it more SG-ish. He agreed and here is it's birthing process. I'm really excited to hear and play it. He uses mostly recycled, discarded materials. If you're interested in these or this type of music, let me know, we'll talk. You'll notice the thin neck, like a baglama.
Çaglama is pronounced "Jah-Lah-ma". The last photo was from our recording session in February with Jack Endino here in Santiago. The saz/baglama in the middle is called a "Divan" saz, for it's size. That's the screamer feedbacker!!
Çaglama is pronounced "Jah-Lah-ma". The last photo was from our recording session in February with Jack Endino here in Santiago. The saz/baglama in the middle is called a "Divan" saz, for it's size. That's the screamer feedbacker!!
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