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Bouzouki in the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments in Athens. The Greek bouzouki is a plucked musical instrument of the lute family, called the thabouras or tambouras family. The tambouras existed in ancient Greece as the pandura, and can be found in various sizes, shapes, depths of body, lengths of neck and number of strings.
The Irish bouzouki (Irish: búsúcaí) [1] is an adaptation of the Greek bouzouki (Greek: μπουζούκι).The newer Greek tetrachordo bouzouki (4 courses of strings) was introduced into Irish traditional music in the mid-1960s by Johnny Moynihan of the folk group Sweeney's Men, who retuned it from its traditional Greek tuning C³F³A³D⁴ to G²D³A³D⁴, a tuning he had pioneered ...
Irish bouzouki (Octave mandolin) Italy: Calabrian Lira (Calabria) Chitarra battente ("knocking guitar") Chitarrone; Liuto cantabile (Naples) Mandolin (Mandolin family)
Invented 1910s in USA. Name reused for WWII weapon that resembled this instrument. brass instruments: ... bouzouki Ukulele. Concert ukulele [3] Electric ukulele; Harp ...
Greek musical instruments were grouped under the general term "all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching horns, having also a cross piece to which the stringser from an original three to ten or even more in the later period, like the Byzantine era".
The bouzouki-mandolin interplay, which later became a strong feature of Planxty, was "invented" one evening in Johnny's family kitchen in Dalymount, Dublin, as we strove to find an accompaniment for Rattlin' Roarin' Willy.
Baglamas tuning. The baglamas (Greek: μπαγλαμάς Turkish: bağlama), plural baglamades) or baglamadaki (μπαγλαμαδάκι), a long necked bowl-lute, is a plucked string instrument used in Greek music; it is a smaller version of the bouzouki pitched an octave higher (nominally D-A-D), with unison pairs on the four highest strings and an octave pair on the lower D. Musically, the ...
Manolis Chiotis (Greek: Μανώλης Χιώτης; March 21, 1921 – March 21, 1970) was a Greek rebetiko and laiko composer, singer, and bouzouki player. [1] He is considered one of the greatest bouzouki soloists of all time.