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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.
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 ...
The pair teamed with fellow founding partners Alex and Arthur Cornfeld for a two-year renovation of the space that they opened as Brooklyn Bowl on July 7, 2009. [10] It was the first bowling alley in the country, and possibly the world, to be LEED certified with its pinspotter machines using 75% less energy than typical pinspotters. [11] [12] [13]
Irish dance music is isometric and is built around patterns of bar-long melodic phrases akin to call and response.A common pattern is A Phrase, B Phrase, A Phrase, Partial Resolution, A Phrase, B Phrase, A Phrase, Final Resolution, though this is not universal; mazurkas, for example, tend to feature a C Phrase instead of a repeated A Phrase before the Partial and Final Resolutions, for example.
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-tuned mandolin), instead of the modern Greek tuning of CFAD'.
The two-time Australian Open champion advanced to the third round of the tournament on Wednesday with an upset 1-6, 6-1, 6-3 win over No. 20 seed Karolina Muchová. The win was also a reversal of ...
Angelo Avramakis (Greek: Βαγγέλης Αβραμάκης) is a Greek musician and bouzouki player. Born in Serres, Greece, he has spent most of his life in Australia. He is considered the leading bouzouki player in Australia and among the top bouzouki players in the world. Avramakis began playing drums at the age of 4.
President Donald Trump speaks during an Executive Order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 11, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Credit - Andrew Harnik—Getty Images