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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 ...
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 .
Along with Johnny Moynihan and Dónal Lunny, Irvine is one of the pioneers who adapted the Greek bouzouki—with a new tuning—into the Irish bouzouki. He contributed to advancing the design of his instruments in co-operation with English luthier Stefan Sobell, [ 3 ] and he sometimes plays a hurdy-gurdy made for him in 1972 by Peter Abnett ...
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 ...
Irish: G 3 G 2 •D 4 D 3 •A 3 A 3 •D 4 D 4. Modal D: A 3 A 2 •D 4 D 3 •A 3 A 3 •D 4 D 4. Bouzouki, Octave Mandolin, tenor Mandolin (US), tenor Mandola (UK), Zouk Ireland Irish bouzouki is an octave mandolin with the two lowest courses tuned in octaves instead of unisons. "Modal D" octaves can also be tuned in unisons.
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 ...
Although the Irish bouzouki's bass course pairs are most often tuned in unison, on some instruments one of each pair is replaced with a lighter string and tuned in octaves, similar to the 12-string guitar. While occupying the same range as the octave mandolin/octave mandola, the Irish bouzouki is theoretically distinguished from the former ...
Gregory introduced Fagan to the guitar-shaped, Irish bouzouki which is now his main instrument. [3] Singing remains his first and foremost musical love. [4] He completed his medical training in 1995 [5] and was on holiday in England when he met Nancy Kerr. [6] They formed a duo which has become the mainstay of their career.