baglamas
English
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Baglamas
Noun
baglamas (plural baglamades)
- (music) A plucked stringed instrument, a long-necked bowl lute, played in Greek music and often made of improvised materials; it is a high-pitched and small bouzouki with one string in an octave pair on the lower D and unison pairs on the four highest strings.
- 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 262:
- This was the time when the younger cousin of the bouzouki, the baglamas, came into its own – the more easily to be concealed beneath clothing or in a specially designed pocket sewn into an overcoat.
Synonyms
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of chordophones
References
- 2013. The Social Organization of Exile. Margaret E. Kenna. Pg. 30.
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