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[58]: 35 A distinctive aspect of the Sweeney's Men sound was Moynihan's introduction of the bouzouki—originally a Greek instrument—into Irish music, albeit with a different tuning: GDAD' [2]: 15 (one octave lower than the open-tuned mandolin), instead of the modern Greek tuning of CFAD'. [2]: 5 In 1996, Irvine wrote:
Sweeney's Men broke the mould of Irish music and are credited with starting the folk revival there in the late 1960s. The most famous innovation of Sweeney's Men is probably Moynihan's introduction of the bouzouki , originally a Greek instrument , into Irish music, albeit with a different tuning: GDAD' [ 2 ] : 15 (one octave lower than the open ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Finn took up the bouzouki in the 1970s, from a background of playing the guitar in skiffle and blues music. [2] In contrast to most Irish players, he played a round-backed Greek bouzouki, one of the older-style trichordo three course (six string) instruments tuned DAD.
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 .
The group was formed by Leslie Dowdall, Jack Dublin, Vinnie Kilduff, Ivan O'Shea, Martin Clancy, Paul Byrne and Steve Wickham in the early 1980s. [1] Although the group's focus was an early Roxy Music-style rock, it combined this aspiration with modern-styled folk and traditional Irish music in the form of uilleann pipes and acoustic guitars, laced together with raw vocals and electronic violin.