What is the Difference Between 6-String Bouzouki and 8-String Bouzouki?

What is Bouzouki?

A country where our common culture is plentiful: Greece! As such, they are quite similar in our music. We know a lot of these kinds of music that have a lot of Aegean tunes in them because they got some of them from us, some of them we got from them. Bouzouki is one of our common ties.

For Bouzouki, we can call it the cornerstone of contemporary Greek music. Bouzouki is a mixture of guitar and tying.  So we can't say that the Bouzouki is a very balanced instrument. Bouzouki is a mixture of guitar and tying as a keyboard, but it has strings of tying and its layout is in the form of a certain layout. The word "broken" in Turkish eventually became "Bouzouki" in Greek, as it is an instrument made with care from thatch.

The Bouzouki has an egg-shaped body and is a member of the same family as the binding, kopuz, and ud, as the stem is long! The musical culture to which this instrument belongs is Rebetika. It is also possible to find Bouzouki in Irish folklore. We are sure that you will be interested in the mother-of-pearl inks on the front of the torso.

The most important aspect of Bouzouki lessons is the obtaining of Bouzouki-specific sound. The involvement of the Pena and the position of the wrist play a big role in the production of the desired sound. The quality, brand, and frequent replacement of wires are important factors affecting the sound of Bouzouki.

Bouzouki construction, repair, and maintenance can be proposed for Kostas Dekavalas (Thessaloniki), Babis Kleftoyannis (Athens), Manolis Paraskevas (Thessaloniki), Aleksis Rotskos (Thessaloniki), Tasos Theodorakis (Thessaloniki), Karolos Tsakirian (Athens).

Bouzouki Instrument History

The history of The Broken began with the 1924 remuneration. When the Greeks living in Anatolia emigrated to Greece, they wanted to maintain the musical traditions in Anatolia and tried to do the same. Inspired by the broken pattern in the binding and adapted to themselves over time, they put Bouzouki. The Bouzouki has a very strong voBouzouki!

According to a rumor, the binding of one of the Greeks who emigrated to Greece after the First World War is broken irreparable, and while he waits for his binding to be repaired, he finally finds a reed that has nothing to do with the binding. He gets very angry and leaves the store, shouting "Bouzouki!" in the sense of a broken instrument. Later, this reed falls into the hands of a Greek musician, and from it spreads to the Turkish immigrants.

8-String Bouzouki vs. 6 String Bouzouki

4 courses/8 strings 8-string are the properties belong to Bouzouki. For 8-String, each course is a string key. You may remember the first four strings of a guitar when you tune the 8-String Bouzouki, but the only difference is that tuning the 8-String Bouzouki is a low-tone transpose. 8-String is D=E, A=B, F=G, and C=D for tuning.

If the type of Bouzouki you are using is 6-String Bouzouki, the order of the first string will be as follows: D, A, and D again. The chord system in 6-String Bouzouki is different.