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Virtual instruments and makam instruments

The instruments of makam music: some you can play in your browser with real recordings and comma-precise tuning; the others are introduced by family and will become playable one by one.

String instruments

KanunTry onlineMade of courses of three strings stretched over a trapezoid-shaped horizontal body; it is played with picks worn on the fingers and its pitches are adjusted in small steps with mandals.
SanturTry onlineThe string instrument of Persian music, played by striking courses of four strings on a trapezoid case with light mallets.
Bağlama (saz)Try onlineThe best-known string instrument of Turkish folk music; it is played using the frets tied onto its long neck.
KopuzComing soonThe oldest known string instrument in Turkish cultural history; it is remembered as the instrument of the ozans (bards).
TanburTry onlineA string instrument used in classical Turkish music, with a long fretted neck and a round bowl.
OudTry onlineA string instrument with a deep, pear-shaped body and a fretless neck, played with a pick.
CümbüşTry onlineA string instrument with a fretless neck that resembles a banjo, with its metal body and skin-covered face.
TarComing soonA fretted string instrument with a figure-eight-shaped (double-bowl) body, played especially in Azerbaijan and Eastern Anatolia.

Bowed instruments

Wind instruments

Percussion instruments