Rosewood bouzouki 017.ASF

This is a new rosewood bouzouki, just completed for a customer. It has a scale length of just under 530mm, is tuned GDAE and strung with D'Addario J80 phosphor bronze strings.

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Music

Tags:

• rosewood
• bouzouki
• irish
• dave hynds

[wupeide]

intonation is not good... sad

[davehynds17120]

@wupeide You'll have to explain that, as the notes at frets 5 and 12 were pretty much within 5% of true, using an electronic tuner, without any compensation!! When it comes to be picked up, I will fine tune with compensation if necessary....

[wupeide]

@davehynds17120 Well I have to say it looks like a lovely instrument and sounds nice - but just after you say "the intonation is good" the octave you played doesn't sound perfect to me. (so that would be on the E string, right?) Anyhow, it may just be some overtone issues with youtube or my speakers or something, but it sounds just every so slightly off to me. (The G also sounds a bit funky, now that I listen again.) Is within 5% of true an acceptable margin of error?

[davehynds17120]

@wupeide Perfect intonation is like the holy grail...... but check out 'rosewood zook intonation', I made a short clip with a tuner, and its really pretty good.

[davehynds17120]

Tep, completely different tuning and scale length from a Greek bouzouki.....

[davehynds17120]

No problem D'Addario..... :)

[thephunk1]

Interesting. It has a warmer timbre than your typical Greek bouzouki. Is this an Irish one?

[daddariostrings]

Beautiful instrument! Thanks for the mention