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  2. Irish bouzouki - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    A guitar-shaped mandolin, or mandolin neck on ukulele body. Mandolin, Octave: 8 strings 4 courses. Standard/common: G 2 G 2 •D 3 D 3 •A 3 A 3 •E 4 E 4. Alternate: Irish Bouzouki: G 2 G 2 •D 3 D 3 •A 3 A 3 •D 4 D 4. Tenor Mandolin, Irish Bouzouki, Octave mandola (Europe) Pitched 1 octave below the mandolin. Mandolin, piccolo: 8 ...

  4. Bouzouki - Wikipedia

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    It is the precursor to the Irish bouzouki, an instrument derived from the Greek bouzouki that is popular in Celtic, English, and North American folk music. There are 3 main types of Greek bouzouki: the trichordo ( three-course ) has three pairs of strings (known as courses) the tetrachordo ( four-course ) has four pairs of strings, & then the ...

  5. Octave mandolin - Wikipedia

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    The Irish bouzouki is a very similar instrument, and is often confused with the octave mandolin, but an Irish Bouzouki has a longer scale length and a different tuning than the octave mandolin. Also, octave mandola is sometimes applied to what in the U.S. is a mandocello .

  6. DADGAD - Wikipedia

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    D A D G A D, or Celtic tuning, is an alternative guitar tuning most associated with Celtic music, though it has also found use in rock, folk, metal and several other genres. Instead of the standard tuning ( E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 ) the six guitar strings are tuned, from low to high, D 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 A 3 D 4 .

  7. Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    A typical UOGB concert according to the New York Times is a "genre bending array" of musical covers that spans from Richard Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries to the Sex Pistols’ Anarchy in the U.K. [21] [47] The Chicago Tribune reports that the orchestra is "happy to pillage anything from the rich pageant of western music" as it roams freely ...

  8. Category:Bouzouki players - Wikipedia

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    Irish bouzouki players (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Bouzouki players" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent ...

  9. Cross tuning - Wikipedia

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    In folk music traditions, cross-tunings are used to give the instrument a different sound by altering the pitch of string resonances and drones. It may be notated in the normal way, with notes written at the sounding pitch, or the written notes may represent the finger position as if played in regular tuning, while the sounded pitch is altered.