Is this instrument easier than the oud? I was a drummer 50 years but have arthritis in my hands. I wanna learn something new but am afraid the double strings will be hard for me.
I bought a Cura Saz because I love the sound of it. Thank you Thank you for your videos I watch them over and over. They are such a help. I’m so appreciative of your time. Blessings 🙏 🙏
Just my comment, I tried this with much care only adding a small bit of paper, the extra pressure on the cap made it crack a little, it's now in need of a replacement.
This video he uses a tuning of F# E B which is two whole steps below the AGD tuning of the short neck saz which allows the AGD tuning to be played at the 4th fret. an AGD tuning would be: A2 A3 G3 G3 D3 D4 D4 the F# E B tuning is: F#2 F#3 E3 E3 B2 B3 B3 Know that B3 is only a half step below C4 so dont be fooled into tuning to B4, I guarantee you will break your strings if you do. The long neck saz is usually in all 5ths tuning of GDA (like a violin or mandolin) whereas the AGD tuning has the two A strings tuned an octave apart so that they 7th above and 2nd below the middle G strings. However if you are using sheet music for the short neck saz this wont work on the 4th fret of the long neck saz because the frets wont line up. The quarter step frets are only between certain half step frets. The frets will match if you play from open tuning but you'll have to accept the fact that your music will be transposed and so not the same key. I dont recommend tuning to AGD on the open strings as there will be a very considerable amount of tension on these light strings.
I’ve been using AGD for my longneck saz for awhile, if you have good quality strings (even standard should be find) it’ll work. The small strings can even tune to E but the big ones definitely will snap.
Hi, i made a comment a year ago about playing the saz. Good news, i bought one a while ago. The traditional “standard” tuning for the saz in Armenia is GDA (top-down). It works very well. Strings do not snap at all. The sound is great.
Nice. I just got a long neck banjo saz (it's a little head, probably akin to the width of a bongo head). I'm kind of a 3 chord strum guy so I've tuned it DAE, bit like a mandolin I guess. Luckily it sounds nothing like a banjo, which may seem like an odd 'want' from something you buy knowing it is essentially a banjo hybrid, but the sustain is somehow user controllable in a way I can't really achieve with solid wood instruments.....and I can kind of figure out the chords which helps
Got a nearly 20 yr old guitar from a Pawn Shop to get back into playing. It has just a tiny bit of separation. I knew to release the tension on the strings immediately but didn't know how exactly to fix it. I will definitely be doing this repair when I get the materials. Thanks for the tutorial!
Its been so hard to find videos for bağlama saz in english 😅 i speak some Turkish, but I cannot keep up with the lesson videos and books I've found online. I have a cura saz, so a short neck, and have it tuned to CGD and have just been trying to mess around with it. So far I love it, but i dont quite understand it yet 😅 anyway thanks for sharing this, its a dope ass tune!!
love your videos, they are so helpful! just a girl over here trying her best to learn short-neck saz. could you share some of your favorite saz musicians? hope you're doing well.
When they play unplugged, much of performers using small tap tones with right hand fingers, just smulating kick sound. In our recorded music, bağlama is played like guitar in a band generally, no taps needed when there is a rhytm instrument. However, solo performers are using taps. Playing and singing with bağlama has its kind of "singer songer" style, called "aşık" (ashik) which has also different sub-styles like "aşık atışması" which is interesting one, two ashiks competing each others like with instantly writed flok poems. Search for aşık atışması on youtube for some examples, Yener Yılmazoğlu Ft. Murat Çobanoğlu one is an interesting style called "lebdeğmez". It has wiki page in english, also ashik subject has lots of historic information. As a guitar player, im also struggling using "tezene", so i understand your pain :)
I just bought a Fender ukulele in this condition. It's currently sitting on my workbench with two clamps on it while the glue dries. I simply flexed the joint open a tad and the glue ran right in, then squeezed out the side as expected. There are no support pegs in it.
Just bought a guitar super cheap that has the same exact issue I’m talking when I put the glue I’ll just put a screw in it and then I won’t need a clamp because the screw will hold it and of course I’ll just leave the screw in it hopefully that’ll work don’t have to be perfect I got the guitar super cheap as long as it’s playable
just bought a C stock acoustic where the neck is coming off for 80% off, I have wood working tools and skills. can't wait to use your tutorial in the next couple weeks! thanks for the video
My saz is a short neck, with the traditional tuning pegs. Since I am Armenian and traditionally the saz was always tuned to GDA in Armenia, so thats how mine is tuned.
This didnt help me , mine isnt open enough to get glue in there but starting , does anyone have opinions on how to get glue in a paper thin crack ? Wood glue it toooooo thick ......
