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I'm a #guitartech, I've worked under many people, worked for Guitar Center, and had my own shop for a time. I still do it on the side these days & I'm always happy to give advice. I've worked on everything with strings that isn't a classical instrument.
#guitar #bass #classicalguitar #acousticguitar #banjo #mandolin #bouzouki
I #DIY a lot because I often find cookie cutter or off the shelf solutions to be lacking. I'm often seen making or modifying some thing to better fit my use cases.
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"The Boyne Water" par #MartinHayes (#violon) dans "The Common Ground Ensemble", un beau projet :
https://www.martinhayes.com/martin-hayes-the-common-ground-ensemble
Avec :
- Cormac McCarthy (#piano)
- Kate Ellis (#cello)
- Kyle Sanna (#guitar)
- Brian Donnellan (#bouzouki / #harmonium / #concertina)
Un arrangement puissant, hypnotique, magnifique :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=634V3hZG0ws
Bhí an t-ádh orm freastail ar an rang #Bouzouki le Cathal Ó Curráin, ag Scoil Cheoil an Earraigh an seachtain seo chaite.
Seo blaiseadh duit: https://xn--fsein-zqa5f.xn--nead-na-bhfinleog-hpb.ie/w/7eaMX8wbwa1ZkZ51qiTXSu?autoplay=1
#SCAE
En attendant que ma demande de compte PeerTube soit validée, un petit souvenir musical hébergé chez les affreux 
pour partager un peu de #musiquebretonne #dansebretonne : suite de Loudéac en duo flûte (Alex Le Breton) / bouzouki (ma pomme), captée à la chapelle Ste Suzanne de Mûr (Guerlédan) et présentée au Kan ar Bobl 2022... Je posterai quelques compos de #bouzouki solo quand j'aurai accès à mieux 
https://youtu.be/BV3O5z2ybrw?si=JWN41UY4V6V8l1nT
Lazura Essential Balkan x Oriental: Melodic One Shots WAV FREE
#introductionfr #presentationfr
Salut tout le monde, de #bretagne et d'ailleurs !
Musicien de trad' breton aux horizons variés, j'espère trouver (à terme) un peu de monde pour causer #festnoz et-pas-que, partager infos et musiques, vous donner envie de venir marteler les planchers...
Joueur de #bouzouki #cornemuse notamment dans les groupes Kerrech, Mu(r)zicos, Cercle celtique Mûr, Bagad St Ké
Encore en découverte de Masto (jamais utilisé TwittX), pardon d'avance pour mes bourdes éventuelles 
#introduction
Bonjour tout le monde !
Comme il est d'usage de le faire d'ici, une rapide présentation : je suis musicien, membre de plusieurs groupes de musique #trad (Cadène, Traucanèu, Balam, Lutecia Ceili Band, en duo avec Michel Esbelin, @SophieB, @benfiddle, @JeanPierreSarzier) et de #balmusette (Les Papillons de Nuit), également cherchologue à mes heures perdues sur ces deux domaines.
Mes dates, mes groupes, mes articles etc... ici :
https://www.tiennetsimonnin.fr
Site de Tiennet SimonninTiennet SimonninTiennet Simonnin fait ses débuts à l'accordéon chromatique en 1988. A l'adolescence, il se passionne pour la musique irlandaise et débute l'apprentissage du répertoire et du style irlandais, d'abord au tin whistle, puis plus tard à l'accordéon chromatique, du uilleann pipes et du bouzouki. Au début des années 2000, il joue beaucoup en session et en concert avec les groupes de musique irlandaise Shelta et Bouncing Feet. A partir de 2007, il travaille davantage sur les musiques traditionnelles françaises, en particulier la musique d'Auvergne. Il fait la rencontre de Michel Esbelin, avec qui il crée un duo cabrette / accordéon. Tiennet commence également à jouer en bal folk : c'est la naissance du duo TTC (avec Thomas Restoin) en 2009, puis de Mister Klof (avec Julien Cartonnet, Sylvain Quéré et Sylvain Vuidart) en 2010. Par la suite, Tiennet s'intéresse de plus en plus aux origines du musette parisien. En 2014, avec Solen Imbeaud et Camille Raibaud, il participe à la création d'un spectacle jeune public, Les Enfants du Bal, qui donne naissance à un album sous forme de conte musical, récompensé par un "coup de cœur" de l'Académie Charles Cros. Tiennet fait par ailleurs la connaissance de la chanteuse Sophie Gamblin ; avec Antoine Leclercq au banjo, c'est le début d'un nouveau projet musical, Les Papillons de Nuit, qui redonne vie au répertoire musette de l'entre-deux-guerres à Paris. En 2020 Tiennet fonde Traucanèu avec Anne-Lise Foy et Camille Raibaud, trio qui met à l'honneur le répertoire traditionnel à danser d'Auvergne, et Balam, quartet d'accordéons chromatiques avec Julien Padovani, Hervé Capel et Thomas Restoin, qui propose en concert un répertoire de compositions inspirées des musiques traditionnelles. La même année, son premier album solo voit le jour pour la collection "Un artiste, un instrument" produite par Dominique Bommel. Parallèlement à son activité de musicien, Tiennet donne des cours d'accordéon, de whistle et d'uilleann pipes. Il est également sollicité pour animer des stages et des master-classes.
What a nice afternoon! We met two guys a couple weeks back at Nybohov Pizza who are sitting playing some Rembetika music... Today they invited us to a little Rembetika gathering at an Old fashioned cafeteria out of so-called "Service House"(elder center), and I got to play Greek music for the first time since I left the United states. So nice!
Tá an t-albam nua ó Macdara Ó Faoláin: Ar Thaobh Chill an Fhuarthainn, ar fáil faoi dheireadh 
https://macdaraofaolain.bandcamp.com/album/ar-thaobh-chill-an-fhuarthainn
#Ceol #Bouzouki
The next album SpaceAce submitted to this project is the debut album from Anne Briggs, number 483 in The List.
As with the other folk albums we’ve listened to so far for SpaceAce Sunday, this is another artist who was apparently very influential in the British folk revival of the 60s. If you (like me) don’t know anything about Briggs, I’d recommend checking out her Wikipedia page – she sounds like an interesting person, and there’s a ton of musical connections to explore. One thing that jumped out at me was that she plays bouzouki, and played it while touring in the late 60s with an Irish band, Sweeney’s Men (it can also be heard on the second last track – and my favorite – of this self-titled album). The Wikipedia notes that the instrument was rare in Ireland (and Britain) at the time; I can’t help but wonder if Briggs’/Sweeney’s Men’s bouzouki playing laid any sort of foundation for the Irish folk community’s later acceptance of bouzouki player Mohammad Syfkhan, who we met in a previous spotlight. My mind wanders…
This album was just re-released this April as a deluxe edition for Record Store Day with an additional 7″ that has four extra songs. I would think SpaceAce likely grabbed a copy of it – if my memory serves, he posted at least a few times about Anne Briggs records.
In memory of our dearly missed friend, let’s raise a glass and take a listen together.
- Youtube: Anne Briggs – Anne Briggs
- Songlink: Anne Briggs – Anne Briggs (deluxe edition)
- Discogs: Anne Briggs – Anne Briggs
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/08/25/spaceace-sunday-anne-briggs-anne-briggs-1971-uk/
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I went and looked it up on the Kounadis Archive, where there's a good explanation and a better #78rpm transfer, though it's cut short for copyright reasons. An explanation too: "It is the top instrumental song of rebetiko’s discography. [...]
The release of the record in Greece in 1932 was a key event and contributed to the entrance of the bouzouki in discography. It influenced many of the well-known composers of rebetiko"
#GreekMusic #bouzouki #rebetiko
https://vmrebetiko.gr/en/item-en/?id=4141
Youtube algorithm recommended this tearjerker of a #bouzouki song to me 
in some ways it's quite minimal but very melancholic. The opening reminds me of Metallica "Nothing Else Matters," although of course this pattern is pretty basic and universal.
#GreekMusic #OttomanMusic #FolkMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maW3d_jmS1s
As randomly chosen by survey* on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 0h on The List, submitted by yours truly (i.e., buffyleigh).
One of the three albums on The List from 2024, I just had to add this as soon as I heard it.** Not only is it simply a beautiful, joyful spin, but the fact that an album called “I Am Kurdish” was put out by an Irish record label made me immediately want to know more. So, who is Mohammad Syfkhan, and why is this album labelled as being from Syria and Ireland? Well, as per the Bandcamp description:
Mohammad Syfkhan is a Kurdish/Syrian Singer and Bouzouki player. He began playing music in 1980 while he was in college studying nursing. When he got his degree in 1983, Mohammad moved to the city of Raqqa, Syria where he began working as a professional singer and started his own band, The Al-Rabie Band which played concerts, parties, weddings and festivals all over Syria…
Mohammad continued to play with his band while also working as a surgical nurse until the war broke out in 2011. This unfortunately brought tragedy to Mohammad’s family when one of his sons was killed by Isis thus threatening the lives of the rest of his family. His family had no choice but to leave their home and seek safety in Europe. Three of Mohammad’s sons were resettled in Germany while Mohammad, his young daughter and wife were taken in by Ireland…
Since arriving in Ireland, Mohammad has used the language of music to integrate into the local community by playing at private parties and concerts. He regularly plays at weddings and events for the Kurdish and Syrian communities all over Ireland and in Germany. He has collaborated with such Irish artists as Martin Hayes, Cormac Begley, Eimear Reidy, Cathal Roche and Vincent Woods. In 2023 he opened for Lankum at the Cork Opera House and received huge applause from the packed out room.
Mohammad’s own brand of ecstatic music takes elements from Middle Eastern and North African music to create an atmosphere of joy, love and happiness. The songs on ‘I am Kurdish’ have been recorded and mixed with the view to make them to suitable for listening to at a small get together or to be played on a big rig at night clubs. Either way, it is a record that will make people dance.
Three of the tracks on the album feature accompaniment by two fellow Leitrim-based musicians: composer, improviser, sound artist and saxophonist Cathal Roche and composer, improviser and cellist Eimear Reidy.
“I thank everyone who has stood with me and supported me. And I especially thank the Irish people who have engaged with my music in such a wonderful way. I consider myself lucky to have come to this wonderful country that has welcomed me and all refugees. I thank God for everything, and now, thanks to this wonderful country, I am a musician and have a safe home. Thank you to the Irish government and people for giving me the honour of calling this country my home.”
I hope you’ll all enjoy this one. And, if you do, perhaps also check out this excellent live performance, recorded in an Irish castle a couple months ago in the county that Syfkhan now calls home, Leitrim.
*The survey choices that led to this spotlight were “When you walk through the garden”, “You gotta watch your back”, “Well, I beg your pardon”, and “Walk the straight and narrow track”. There was a 3-way tie between the first, third, and last phrases, so each one will get a spotlight. For the third phrase, the survey result was translated as picking the third non-yet- spotlighted album in The List with one of the phrase’s words in the title, the matching word here being “I”.
**Found via this article in The Guardian.
***When this album was added to the list it didn’t yet have a Discogs entry, hence the “0” numbering. It has now been added to Discogs though, hence the link.
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/08/09/mohammad-syfkhan-i-am-kurdish-2024-syria-kurdish-ireland/
Roaring through a set of reels: The Road to Ballymac/Andy McGann’s/The Congress Reel.
Sharon Shannon, accordion; Mary Custy, fiddle; Eoin O’Neill, bouzouki.
#IrishTrad #FolkMusic #IrishMusic #fiddle #accordion #bouzouki
Just put a fresh set of strings in my #IrishBouzouki and it reminded me of why I don't change them more often. It certainly sounds better, though!
Very few urban phenomena make me as happy as the survival of traditional crafts in old workshops.
Here’s an old-school luthier, still making bouzoukia by hand #Athens #music #luthier #bouzouki #exarcheia
Glad to finally announce I'm making the music of the chillout-oldschool-RPG : Terra Memoria 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVHYra1Ern0
wishlist on Steam : http://terramemoria.com
This is my proper #introduction post.
In 1983 I bought a VIC-20 (with an audio tape drive!), started writing code in BASIC, typing in the programs from computer magazines, and trying to get them to run. Now, 40 years later, I work for a very large company, and write code in #Java, #Rust, #Python, #Ruby, #Bash, and several other languages. I’m also a musician, playing #bass, #guitar, #banjo, and, most recently, Irish #bouzouki (an instrument I’ve wanted to own for 35 years).
Here's a thread about the instrument that I now think of as my main instrument.
I originally built it in early 2003 so it is coming up to 20 years old.
It is a solid body #electricGuitar like instrument, but it originally had 5 courses (pairs) of strings tuned CGDAE (although DGDAD and DADAD also work well)
When I built it I would have called it a 10-string electric irish #bouzouki.
Here's what it looked like in 2003.
