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21 Sep 02 - 03:43 PM (#788624) Subject: non irish or greek bouzouki From: GUEST,Kristi We are looking to buy in the next couple of days a bouzouki for our fiddle/guitar player for a reasonable price. We have looked at the Johnson bouzouki in Elderly and like it. We are looking for input about the instrument or suggestions about other bouzouki's out there in the same price range, about $600. If you are familiar with the instrument please give us some input. I am supposed to be ordering it today for my honey, but wanted to get some input since I haven't been able to find too many out there that are not an A model. Thanks, Kristi |
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21 Sep 02 - 03:52 PM (#788628) Subject: RE: Help: non irish or greek bouzouki From: Bert Lark in The Morning have a selection in their bargain basement. |
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21 Sep 02 - 04:49 PM (#788660) Subject: RE: Help: non irish or greek bouzouki From: gwonya I've had my eye on a used Trinity College bouzouki at a store in the neighborhood and am curious as to why you may have ruled this model out. I have very limited experience/knowledge with regard to bouzoukis and would appreciate you sharing any impressions you or your lucky honey may have - A model versus ? etc. Thanks Krista - and good luck finding the one you want. |
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21 Sep 02 - 05:21 PM (#788677) Subject: RE: Help: non irish or greek bouzouki From: GUEST,Kristi My honey has played with a F-model mandolinist for over 25 years and just doesn't like the a model style. K |
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21 Sep 02 - 06:35 PM (#788707) Subject: RE: Help: non irish or greek bouzouki From: gwonya ...sorry about the typo Kristi. |
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15 Mar 08 - 09:53 PM (#2289418) Subject: How do i tune a greek bouzouki? I need help From: GUEST,Zorba HOw do i tune my greek bouzouki? |
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15 Mar 08 - 11:36 PM (#2289458) Subject: RE: non irish or greek bouzouki From: Barry Finn Try the Bouzouki Page for more info. I'm near this guy & most bouzouki players in these parts swear by this guys instruments. He 's on the list. Robert L. Abrams Trillium Octave Mandolins 60 Mill Pond Way Portsmouth, NH 03801 (603) 431-6056 www.octavemandolin.com Good Luck Barry |
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16 Mar 08 - 04:12 AM (#2289528) Subject: RE: non irish or greek bouzouki From: Dave Hanson Guest Zorba, you tune it with those little knob things at the thin end. eric |
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16 Mar 08 - 06:28 PM (#2290086) Subject: RE: non irish or greek bouzouki From: GUEST,Shimrod "non irish" bouzouki!? Now I've heard it all!! I'll have ome of those "non scottish" samurai swords, please. Oh, and a "non italian" bowler hat ... |
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16 Mar 08 - 06:34 PM (#2290090) Subject: RE: non irish or greek bouzouki From: curmudgeon Barry - Bob Abrams has been in Nottingham for quite some years now. But he is a first rate luthier and can be found here - Tom |
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16 Mar 08 - 06:48 PM (#2290098) Subject: RE: non irish or greek bouzouki From: Barry Finn Tom, I knew that, that's why I directed my post towards him. Barry |
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16 Mar 08 - 07:37 PM (#2290128) Subject: RE: non irish or greek bouzouki From: Jeri Kristi also said she was looking for something around $600, and that definitely doesn't include Bob's lovely Trillium zouks. Mind you, that question was asked in 2002. The current question is: "HOw do i tune my greek bouzouki?[sic] GDAD is common, but Wikipedia says the oringinal Greek bazouki is/was tuned to CFAD and in more recent years, tuned up to DGBE |
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18 Jul 09 - 09:56 AM (#2682786) Subject: RE: non irish or greek bouzouki From: GUEST,Rob McGregor Try SAKIS for reasonable priced bowlback zouks - you can probably get one for £400 or $600 if you hunt around. "non-Irish"...love it. Original tuning CFAD. So-called Irish, or flatback, zouks (or the even longer mandola as I like to call it)can be tuned any damn way you like basically as there is no firm tradition. Beware the people who will try to tell there is only one way to play, and that just happens to be the way they've been playing with their Planxty tribute band for the last 20 years.. Clearly if you want to play "proper" Greek bouzoui music you're in a different ball game. I've played ADAD, GDAE and GDAD, but whatever your strings and neck and fingers can handle. Double stopping ADAD is fun and sort of easyish way to play a melody with a bit more oomph - good for pub gigs, whereas with GDAE is easy to play a lot of standard strumming accompaniement. Buy two to avoid those embarrassing retune moments.... You can even fingerpick...I have to do this occasionally as the rest of the band I sometimes play with claim that I play too loud sometimes! The cheek!! |
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18 Jul 09 - 11:17 AM (#2682826) Subject: RE: non irish or greek bouzouki From: TonyA Zorba, the site PlayBouzouki.com has a lot of information about real bouzoukia - scales, chords, mp3 samples, even a discussion forum, all for free. It looks like there are video tutorials that you have to pay for. |
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19 Jul 09 - 03:39 AM (#2683184) Subject: RE: non irish or greek bouzouki From: GUEST,Bruce Michael Baillie You could try tuning it AEAE. I've just converted an Ozark six string guitar to a guitar bouzouki by adding extra machine heads. It works very well and can be seen on my YOUTUBE site. I even contacted the chaps at Ozark to let them know what I'd done and found they have just started to make a Guitar Bouzouki themselves priced at £450. Dave Carroll at Ozark sent me some pics of it and it looks very nice. There is also a lot of info on Greek Bouzoukis, lessons, tunings etc on YOUTUBE. Hope this helps |
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19 Jul 09 - 10:34 AM (#2683291) Subject: RE: non irish or greek bouzouki From: TonyA Very nice, Bruce. It sounds great. Here's a link to the video. It looks like you filled the 6 old tuning machine holes with dowel rods and then drilled 8 new ones closer together. Is that right? Lucky that the peghead had extra room. And clearly the same approach with the bridge pins. |