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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 ...
Tetrachordo bouzouki Greece Standard aka "F 6 tuning" Bouzouki: 6 strings 3 courses. D 3 D 4 •A 3 A 3 •D 4 D 4: Trichordo bouzouki Greece Standard aka "F 6 tuning" Bouzouki, Irish ( See Irish bouzouki) ( See Irish bouzouki) Brac, 5 string 5 strings 4 courses. Standard/common: E 3 •A 3 •D 4 •G 4 G 4. Alternate: F ♯ 3 •B 3 •E 4 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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.