264 cura

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Turkey
body: mulberry wood, front face of cypres, with 1 soundhole; L.76.8cm
strings: 3 courses (the first is single, and the second and the third double), steel
frets: 13
tuning: c"-g'-d"

The smallest type of saz. Performance technique same as for 262. Used in accompaniment of a broad range of folk song and dance styles. in ensemble music it plays the melody an octave the larger saz.

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