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bouzouki

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bouzouki

Long-necked lute used in Greek popular music. Developed from a Turkish instrument early in the 20th century, it has a pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard. The modern instrument usually has four courses of strings, which are plucked with a plectrum, typically in a vigorous and agile style.


bouzouki
a Greek long-necked stringed musical instrument related to the mandolin


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The musical team of All Petteway and Amy White are known and appreciated for their blends of contemporary, Celticinfluenced, original and traditional instrumental music employing acoustic guitars, the mandolin, the piano, Irish bouzouki, and incredible beautiful vocals.
He has set ``Zorba'' - an occasionally mawkish tale of life, love and mining (sort of) in hardscrabble Crete - in a bare Bouzouki Parlor.
In Land Of The Sky, Al Petteway and Amy White deftly collaborate to memorably perform within that Southern Appalachian music tradition and heritage for the benefit and delight of a new generation of listeners with recorded performances that include both original and traditional compositions of mountain melodies played on acoustic guitars, the mandolin, the Celtic harp, the banjo, fiddles, the Irish Bouzouki, Fretless Bass, percussion, and vocals.
 
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