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Uploaded by on Mar 24, 2011

Kastamonu'da Bekir Tekeli usta, 50 yılı aşkın süredir saz imalatıyla uğraşıyor. Bekir usta sazla ilgili şöyle diyor; "Sazı, biz dut ağacından oyma yapıyoruz. Mesela teknesi duttur, oyma. Sapı, kayın fırınlanmış birinci sınıf, göğsü ladindir. Biz sazlara vernik, polyester atmayız. Biz, el cilası, omlak cila yaparız. Şimdi o vernik ve polyester benim kafamca sesini bozuyor. Biz atmıyoruz. Israr ediyorlar, ben atmıyorum yani. Ustalık sonsuzdur. Benim de daha eksiğim vardır. Daha iyisini yapmaya çalışıyorum, her geçen gün."

In Kastamonu, Master Bekir Tekeli has been occupied in saz making for more than 50 years. Master Bekir Tekeli says about saz; "We are making saz as cavitation from mulberry tree. For example, its boat is mulberry, cavitation. Its finger board is first class oven-dried fagus, its chest is spruce. We don't apply varnish, polyester to sazs. We do hand polishing, shellac polishing. Those varnishes and polyester destroys its sound according to me. We don't varnish. They insist, I don't varnish I mean. Mastery is eternal. I have still missing too. I am trying to do better, every passing day."

Produced by Ayse Oksuz Kanal B Ankara - Turkiye
Camera: Saim Gurbuz
Editing: Nisa Kasapoglu
Masters: Bekir Tekeli
Guests: Zeynep Savas - Kudret Dagli
Kastamonu - Turkey
Release Date: May 27, 2008
With English Subtitles

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  • God certainly blessed us all with this amazing gentalman.

  • Köszönöm Mester uram ezt a szép videót.

  • Wonderful! Do you sell you Saz's?

  • Super

  • Bravo -- who still works like this today? A true master of a dying art. Long life!

  • eski toprakin gözünü seveyim,ellerin üperim amcacigim!

  • Oleeeee,,,los buenos artesanos !!!

  • well done

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