baglama
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See also: bağlama
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Etymology
From Turkish bağlama, from bağlamak (“to tie”).
Noun
baglama (plural baglamas)
- A seven-stringed musical instrument in various cultures around the eastern Mediterranean, with a pear-shaped body, and strings in double or sometimes triple courses.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 945:
- At the end of the room, as if behind an iconastasis of song, oud, baglamas, and a kind of hammered dulcimer called a santouri were being played without a break.
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- 2013. Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music and Musicians. Timothy Rice. Pg. 196.