Webtips

Some links that might be useful for players of the irish bouzouki:

• my own website:
  www.fm-shabba.de
  
  


• a friend of mine, Tom Bloch, he plays a Heiner Dreizehnter guitar shaped bouzouki and a Dreizehnter Mandolin. On his website he provides a good tutorial about crosspicking and some bouzouki papers.
  www.irish-like.com
  
  


• the great french site of Jean Banwarth. You can download a chord-dictionary for GDAE tuning for free:
  http://banwarth.free.fr/engbouz.htm
  
  


• Han Speeks fantastic Site for the irish bouzouki: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hspeek/bouzouki/
  
  
  
• Jonathan Tilly, a french site with lots of information and instructional videos:
  http://cbom.free.fr/ie.htm
  
  
  
• Dominique Riviere has got some great tabs for Guitar and Zouk: http://riviere.auzeau.org/
  
  


• The Yahoo based "Cittern list". Here you can find help or information and get in contact with other players of CBOM-instruments: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cittern/
  
  


• Heiner Dreizehnter, a famous German Luthier, he built my new Bouzouki: http://www.irish-bouzouki.com/
  
  


• Citterns on ice, a compilation of Songs featuring the CBOM-family instruments with downloadable mp3 files: http://netserver.massmedia.com/~mikeb/cittern/coi1/tunes.html
  
  
  
• Anthony de Waals website:
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~cittern/index.htm
  
  
  
• Kierons fantastic Andy Irvine fan-site. You'll find there information about zouks, too: http://www.chinatogalway.com/
  
  
  
• Fretted Friends ebay shop. You can buy a great GDAD Chord bible: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/fretted-friends-music
  
  
  
• John McGann has written a book on the bouzouki:
  http://www.johnmcgann.com/om.html
  
  
  
• Folk of the wood octave mandolin lessions: http://www.folkofthewood.com/page5298.htm
  
  
  
• Terry Blankenship has recorded lots of songs on his zouk. You can listen to them here:
  http://www.mp3.com.au/album.asp?id=1206
  this is his website:
  http://home.cinci.rr.com/terryblankenship/index.html
  
  
  

That's a lot for the beginning, isn't it? If you got any further links let me know.