mooh, well done on your guitar-shaped bouzouki. The only other person I have ever met who plays one of these is Andy Irvine. As he said during a performance, "This is what I call a guitar-bodied eight-stringed Irish derivative of the bouzouki. The last time I called it a bouzouki was at a gig in London. Eight Cypriot Greeks appeared from nowhere, shouted 'Is not bouzouki!' and started throwing things."





As a session player mainly, I find that the rhythm I play is determined by the fiddler's elbow - the fiddle players I know are capable of anything from slip jigs which seem to have a built-in hiccup, to reels which are played in the manner of someone sawing a two-by-four in half, lengthways.

And as for the squeeze-box players ... whatever you do, don't ask, "What time signature is this ?". You would rather not know.