trying to buy a new saz

Wednesday 15th November 2017

I spent the day wandering around Stoke Newington and Haringay (North-east London) trying to find somewhere to buy a new saz — something which had been quite easy when I last did it in 1998. Came home empty handed, the only long-necked model I'd been able to find having been made of fibreglass...no thanks. That evening back in Canterbury i was jamming on my old one at Cameron's house with Juliet ("Solid Air", "Jockey Full of Bourbon") and a friend of Emilia's playing tasteful djembe — sadly unrecorded. This made me resolved to get my current saz fixed up (not knowing at the time that in a few weeks I'd be in Istanbul buying a new one).