Fikret Karakaya playing çeng (Ottoman Turkish harp) - Rast Taksim

Turkish musician Fikret Karakaya (b. 1955 in Kayseri, central Turkey) performing Rast Taksim on çeng (Ottoman Turkish harp). The çeng, a Turkish angular harp, was a popular instrument in the Ottoman Empire until the last quarter of the 17th century. In 1995, Fikret Karakaya, a kemençe player, made the first Turkish çeng to be reconstructed in the modern day using the descriptions in the masnavi "Çengname" by the Turkish poet Ahmed-i Dai, and from Iranian and Ottoman miniatures from the 15th and 16th centuries. He presently plays and records with the instrument.