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Galip Dede Street in Istanbul used to be famous for its antique, philatelic and book shops. But over the past 30 years more and more music shops have opened and now the street has more than 30. Esra Yalcinalp talks to the shopkeepers who sell instruments of all kinds, all the orchestral instruments. Here, too, she finds musicians who might buy a ba臒lama or saz, like a mandolin with a very long neck, and a kemen莽e or lyra, a bowed instrument, used in Ottoman classical and Turkish folk music.

Esra finds that the shops attracts musicians who play outside, and that Galip Dede is a very loud street.

She seeks out, too, the instruments Istanbul is famous for, cymbals, which are made in the city.

Presenter: Esra Yalcinalp
Producer: Julian May