Baglama

One of the historical stringed instruments of Anatolian lands, Turkish short neck baglama:

It is known that the history of baglama dates back to the 1600s. Nowadays, the common name of different variation of the stringed Turkish instruments are called saz. One of the first names of the saz is also called kopuz. This artwork is the classic one, is a short neck version of saz. In the history, stringed instruments are related with bow and arrow, the reason is the grip style of stringed instruments are similar with bow. That's why there are lots of saying about struggle for life, war, bow and sword in traditional Turkish music: Türkü.