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Bouzouki |
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Bouzouki's characteristic sound is well known all over the world, especially associated with syrtaki dance, and Greek summer.
With eight or six cords, bouzouki to be made, two things are mainly needed : materials of excellent quality and technicians skilled with preciseness and finesse.
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Baglamas |
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Mainly made with six cords. It is almost one third of the size of a bouzouki. It produces a fine almost whine sound, that used to give voice to the feelings of love, pain, social injustice or seldom happiness of medium or lower working class.
Today it is used generally in folk songs.
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Tzouras |
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Made with six cords. About it’s size: It’s sleeve and head are the same with bouzouki’s but the vessel is smaller, almost two times the size of a baglama’s vessel.
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