Baglamas

The baglamas or baglamadaki (from the Turkish bağlama) is a fretted string instrument which, like the tambouras, developed from the ancient Greek pandoura. It is a miniature bouzouki, used in Greek popular music. It usually has three pairs of strings and a sharp sound; each string is tuned an octave higher than the matching string on the bouzouki.

The baglamas is small so that players could hide it easily, because it was banned under Ottoman rule and later under the dictatorship.