Adaptaion of string instrument techniques to kabak kemane education (Sirto and longa examples)

The main objective of this research is playing Sirto and Longa which are descant forms in Traditional Turkish Music with Kabak Kemane that is Turkish Folk Song instrument and in thus developing technical dimensions of Kabak Kemane in terms of performance and contrübuting to the Kabak Kemane education. This reserach is a desvriptive research relying on survey model in terms of aim and method and descants used in this study was acquired by literatüre review method. The sample of this research includes the most performed 5 Sirtos and 9 Longas which is and compused with Acemaşiran, Acemkürdi, Hicaz, Hüseyni, Karcığar, Mahur, Nihavend, Nikriz, Rast, Sultan-i Yegâh and Şehnaz maqams. On this descants, some studies were done in terms of arch techniques, left hand playing and adornment techniques are analyzed, actions were played in terms of finger numbers and some performance dynamics and suggested proposals related to conclusions of the research.