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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. Andy Irvine (musician) - Wikipedia

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    In 1989, Irvine's style of playing the bouzouki was summarised thus in The Irish Bouzouki, an instructional guide: Andy plays the bouzouki in a very melodic style, using a lot of sustain. He creates this by hitting the strings individually, allowing them to ring rather than using heavy chording.

  4. Chord bible - Wikipedia

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    Chord Bible is the generic name given to a variety of musical theory publications featuring a large number of chord diagrams for fretted stringed instruments. The subject matter applies exclusively to chordophones , stringed musical instruments capable of playing more than one note at a time.

  5. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. 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 .

  7. James Fagan (musician) - Wikipedia

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    James Fagan (born 1972) is an Australian-born folk musician.He is a singer and multi-instrumentalist specialising in the Irish bouzouki.From the early 1980s he toured in a family band, the Fagans.

  8. Bouzouki - Wikipedia

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    This bouzouki has 10 strings arranged in 5 pairs, adding on an Octave G Course tuned G 2 G 3 in addition to the other 8 strings to extend the range so the tuning is G 2 G 3-C 3 C 4 –F 3 F 4 –A 3 A 3 –D 4 D 4 (a whole step below the 5 high strings of a guitar) which allows for extended Chords & versatility, & was popularized by ...

  9. Johnny Moynihan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...