Motif Academy Journal of Folklore

Abstract

The Baglama instrument which dates back to  Middle Asia orginally and has thousands years
of historical back ground in Turkish Culture,has formed an exceptional place in
performing and transmitting our traditional music. Nowadays,the Bağlama
Instrument which has widely been known and performed among traditional
instruments in Anatolia incontestable, lives and has still been  performed among Alevi-Bektashi music
practices as well as Asıklık(Folk Pets with Bağlama) customs with hundred years
of repertoire.In order to be continous of the performing customs in question
and transmitting the Turku repertoire from generation to generations,The
Balgama producing custom takes very important place.Thus when it is considered
in this way,Sivas town has been one of the habitats for  aşıks/Folk Poets and performers with its
music culture in Anatolia. The research question of this study focused on is
“How do they carry on custom producing of The Bağlama and by Who? This study
which has been carried on by means of qualitative research techniques has been
achieved by using face to face surveying technique that was formed by the
researcher and it was prepared via data collecting techniques with half
completed surveying form and observation. The study was carried on three live
sources who were stated as The Baglama making craftsmen and interviewed in
Sivas center between November30th and December 20th, 2014. The names of the
source people were also declared with their personal permission. As a result of
the study,two important professional problems have been found out as well as
having reached some certain detailed knowledge about the traditional Baglama
pruducing techniques. First of them,the process of prentice training has almost
ended up and second, The Baglama Craftsmen have only taken part in production
phase of the profession since they donot have any gained experience of
performing it before.