Irish bouzouki
The Irish Bouzouki ( Irish bouzouki English ) is a stringed instrument that has been used since the late 1960s, mainly in the Irish folk.
Design and style of play
With the mostly played in Greece bouzouki, a shell -necked lute, the instrument has very little in common. It is rather a case necked lute, an instrument from the family of the Cistern.
The Irish Bouzouki usually features four double strings, which are often GG dd aa d' d ' or AA dd aa d' d' voted, rare in Gg dd ' aa e'e '. Throughout gleichbesaitete double choirs with the mood GG dd aa d' d ' have, however, prevailed in recent years. For the violin or mandolin player of the fingering is simplified by the GDAE tuning '. However, it should be noted that yet another handle technology must be appropriated for better playability with melodies because of the length of the scale in the 1st position. For example, the F # on the D string and the cis to the A string is played with the third finger. Depending on the sequence of notes you can play faster in the second position.
History
The instrument came around 1965/66 by Johnny Moynihan in the Irish music, who received an instrument by John Pearse. After initial reservations, he used the instrument alternately with Andy Irvine in the group " Sweeney 's Men" a. Known to a wide audience, the Irish bouzouki was, however, only when Andy Irvine made his musician friend Dónal Lunny with the instrument known, and they both made the instrument for the style-defining sound of Ireland in the very popular group " Planxty ." They played Bouzouki/Bouzouki- or bouzouki / mandolin duo. Dónal Lunny played the bouzouki also in " The Bothy Band" and later as a rock instrument in the " Moving Hearts ". Both Moynihan and Irvine and Lunny played for double instruments in the mood GDAD or GDAE. An interesting variant of the " Irish bouzouki -style" developed Alec Finn ( of his dreichöriges instrument DAD agreed ) in the mid 1970s and squeezed so by his or her individual style Picking the rhythm and sound of the group " De Danann " his stamp on.
It is impossible to prove beyond doubt when a cittern was called for the first time Irish bouzouki. The first, demonstrably built a " modern " instrument, the Englishman Peter Abnett may have been, the flattened around 1970 in collaboration with Dónal Lunny in the ceiling structure, developed at the bottom three-part instrument with clearly distinct sides and a slim " Greek " neck. The English instrument maker Stefan Sobell from Northumberland in England, designed in the early 1970s following his Portuguese guitar and his old Martin- Arch - top guitar (Model C1) and by the style of the English Renaissance Cistern a bouzouki with a flat bottom, high frame, vaulted ceiling - similar to a violin - and a deeper sound. Both instrument makers have since been copied many times and been interpreted her style.