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I did it with a cura baglama, and it sounds great. It has also more microtonal frets than an actual Khorasani dutar, which I think is pretty cool. The only problem is that you can't really press the upper string with your thumb, like it's traditionally played in Iran. I don't know if it would work with a long neck though.

@@edgarviens I was thinking that since baglama and dotar have roughly the same lengths It could work. Gonna give it a go now, my old chords are not even good anymore anyway. If you used baglama/saz chords I assume you used only first and last chords right?

@ No, actually, I use the two bottom strings, because on a cura saz (and I think it’s the same for all types of saz, Im not sure) the upper string is higher in pitch then the one in the middle. And, if you try to tune it down a fourth or a fifth bellow the bottom string, the upper string is gonna be too loose and it wont sound as good. The only problem with that, as I stated earlier, is that by doing that, you cant’t really use your thumb to press your new upper string (so the one in the middle), like it’s traditionally played on a real Khorasani dutar. Plus anyway, since the neck of a baglama is thicker than a dutar neck, if you pull off the upper string of your saz, and you replace it with a set of doubled strings with a bigger gauge, you wont be able to achieve this, because of the sixe of the neck. I hope it helped.

@@edgarviens yep I used the bottom strings, I got the results as you stated here so I decided to move the string more up but the distance between the strings made it weird to play and using my thumb is difficult because of the neck baglama has. Well, it does sounds nice to be honest, it is a dotar because it means "two strings" but not very khorasani hehehe. Now I added a third one just for the fun and ended up getting a bulgarian tambura vibe. I think Im not gonna use my new strings yet I'll buy a new baglama because I noticed the one I have, the middles strings don't sound quite good, as expected from a cheap entry level instrument. Thanks a lot for your tips they did helped!

No bro this is dutar it sounds different Kazakh dombra is different

It’s Turkmen dutar 😄

😂😂😂😂😂 it’s Dotar, a Persian instrument 😉

You could also argue that it's Albanian cifteli. But they just come from the common ancestor.

​@nistafunny5128 dombra, or the original name, kopuz, is the father of the dutar. 2 stringed instrument are descendants of the kobyz, the oldest instrument in the world. Every Turkic country has this instrument but also Iran. I really wonder why? 🤔 is it because the Persians were ruled for 1000 years by the Turks like the Safavid, Akkoyunlu, Harezmşah and Qajar???