the Boys of Blue Hill on Irish bouzouki

popular Irish session tune played slowly here
on short scale bouzouki tuned FCGD ie one tone below standard and so in the key of C. I'm playing a double stop style where most of the time 2 adjacent strings are played simultaneously one with a flat pick and the other with the first finger nail.

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• hornpipe
• traditional
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• bouzouki
• acoustic

[cmcarlson54]

Nice rendition! What is scale of this bouzouki and what tuning do you use?

[tastommy]

normally this instrument is tuned in "standard" tuning GDAE but for this redition it is a tone lower ie FCGD which sets the tune in C rather than the usual session setting of D major . This is a short scale instrument with string lenght [ nut to saddle] approx 20.5 inches.

[lyng57]

hiya tom i sent an email to you a week or so ago did you get it?

[tastommy]

sorry for delay have just sent email

[HighlandPiper87]

wow! beautifully done! where did you get the zouk?

[tastommy]

thanks.its one of many i've made over the last 25 years. its for sale too by the way!

[tatzelwurm104]

Isnt this a lute?

[bydabay107]

great playing,, thanks for posting

[ElricMeln1]

Hey Irish people!!! Love form Greece!!

[LuckLampLicker]

LOL, acording to DNA analysis only around 10 % of brits, including the English, are desended from Saxons Danes, Romans or Normans.

[that1stupidkid613]

Does anyone know where i can buy an irish zook for under 200$?

[JimBell1984]

@m98m99 By the way, this is an English tune from Northumberland

[JimBell1984]

@m98m99 I can tell you are not from  Britain, cos if you had ever been here no Scots or Irish consider themselves English, maybe British but not English. All you people with a chip on your shoulders, Anglophobic tossers

[LiaSarah91]

closest thing i've found to how my dad used to play it :) lovely

[m98m99]

@IamDaReAlSeaN well the history of anglosaxons shws that any whee they invated , the first thing they did was to take their culture and language away and replace it wit non sense english culture which has no more than 650 years of history .

but sadly you find some irish and specialy scotish who see them selves as an english .