Erkan Oğur & İsmail H. Demircioğlu is tagged as: halk muzigi, folk, baglama, wood and string, turkish blues For both artists see also İsmail Hakkı Demircioğlu, Erkan Oğur. Erkan Oğur in the West (born 1954) is a Turkish musician. A pioneer of fretless guitars, he invented the first fretless classical guitar in 1976.[1][2] A composer, he has influenced many musicians with his compositions combining the sounds of Turkish folk music, classical music with the ancient traditional music. He has played many concerts all over the world. He is regarded as a master of the kopuz and baglama lutes. Erkan Oğur was born in 1954, in Ankara, Turkey. He spent his childhood in Elazığ, eastern Turkey[1], where he got interested in violin and the Turkish bağlama lute, and started to practise them frequently. He graduated from high school in Elazığ, then moved to study physics at the Ankara University Faculty of Science from 1970 to 1973.[1] As a result of encouragement to be a scientist by his father, he started to study chemical engineering and in 1974 continued his education in Munich, Germany, for three years. He was introduced to guitar education in 1973. Instead of being a scientist, he chose to be a musician. Since he needed detailed sounds from a guitar in order to obtain Turkish melodies, he modified his guitar and invented the fretless classical guitar in 1976.[1][2] In 1980, ... Read More About Erkan Oğur & İsmail H. Demircioğlu Biography...  Send Erkan Oğur & İsmail H. Demircioğlu ringtones to your cell
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