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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on March 27, 2015 at 10:53am

I heard a bouzouki player in a cheese shop once.

Also, you can consider the octave mandolin if you don't like the high pitch so much.  Same tuning as a mandolin, but one octave lower.  Scale length being longer makes it easier for me to play as well.  You can get commercial strings for them as well.

Good luck.

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Permalink Reply by TN Twang on March 29, 2015 at 11:54am

A bouzouki player walks into a cheese shop...

The punch lines kinda' write themselves.

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on March 29, 2015 at 12:19pm

I like it runny.

Sometimes, just a bit of the joke is enough to bring a laugh.  :)

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Permalink Reply by JL on March 30, 2015 at 11:23pm

that joke is probably a little runnier than you would like.

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Permalink Reply by TN Twang on March 31, 2015 at 2:00am

I dunno'. This is all Greek to me...

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on March 27, 2015 at 12:10pm

The mandolin has all the cousins that the violin has: mandola, mandocello (or occasionally mandolonCello) and mandoBass. There was a brief period of 'mandolin orchestras' (popularised mostly by Gibson marketing efforts) in the 40s..

A mandola is tuned a perfect fifth below a mandolin (ie capo one to fret7 and its a mandolin), a mandocello an octave below that.

Bouzoukis are different, although you could certainly put one in mandocello tuning

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on March 27, 2015 at 5:30pm

First question: has anyone built a CBG bouzouki?

Aye:

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/harold-playing-a-kurt-schoen

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/kurt-schoen-turbo-zouki-demo

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/schoen-turbozouki-11

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/lefty-winged-bouzouki-1

I have a 3 string dual coursed Steampunk Reso made for me by Bad Finger Erik Davenport that could be tuned like a zook:

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/bouree-bia-or-broke-bach-go-tul...

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Permalink Reply by Scruggy on March 27, 2015 at 11:40pm

cheers Oily just what i was looking great info!

Brilliant playing as always I see also you get some amazing sounds from if im not mistaking one finger chords?

Would love to hear it amplyfied with a bit of dirt!

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on March 27, 2015 at 6:08pm

I"m guessing this is a lot like a Cuban tres guitar.

https://youtu.be/XaQ3cbvylqM

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Permalink Reply by Scruggy on March 27, 2015 at 11:52pm

Interesting thats another new one for me! didnt even know there was standard looking guitars that have that kind of tuning!

Are there any standard type guitars that are 3 or 4 string apart from uke! normal scale guitars?

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Permalink Reply by Scruggy on March 28, 2015 at 3:24am

geez how do i not know this by now!! 

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Permalink Reply by Scruggy on March 28, 2015 at 8:47am

lol :-)

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