Camín de Cantares-Pendueles-6ºParte

Sanyallana has posted another video by these great musicians on youtube:

bailliekin

Who is this musician? Just found his videos on youtube and they're fantastic. Fine singing and playing. You should have a look. I someone has got more info on him, please leave a comment.

The Goblins Riddle:


The Astrologer:


Paddy O'Brians/Bill Harts;


Cuanla:


The Twa Corbies:


Tuppence on the rope:


Rattling Roaring Willie:

Avanti Dilettanti Speyer

Historic German Music played on Bouzouki and Recorder

Gänn Duúls

Wow, so many treasures to be found on youtube. Here's their site at myspace:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=171936063

Cahórnega "Entre el Ebro y Peñavieja"

Great powerful band. You can find more information at:
http://myspace.com/cahornega

Corquieu - Eita

High speed rhythm here from Corquieu. Asturian folk at it's best. (Thanks, Antemil, for your comment)

Camín de Cantares-Trabáu-5ºParte

I like this video a lot. Sounds a bit medeavial to me. Fantastic flute and zouk with 4 female vocalists and percussionists.

And here's two more:

Back from holidays

No, this blog is not dead! I just spent 2 lovely weeks in France. Now, back on the spot I will go on searching the web for interesting bouzouki affairs.

So welcome back and have a look.

JC's ABC Tune Finder

Design: Thierry Chabanis
http://perso.orange.fr/youkoustudio/












You are looking for the melody of a certain tune? Here's a great finder. Just type in the name of the tune and you'll find the abc-file.

http://banwarth.free.fr/finder.htm

Often there are gif files with notation and midi files available, too.

Christy Moore, Declan Sinnot, Donal Lunny

Bad video quality and sound and movie are not in sync. But a great song. You don't see much of Donal. Just sit back and listen.

Sofia Karlsson

Sofia Karlsson is a Swedish singer, bouzouki and wooden flute player. In her homeland she is well known.





Listen to her new single at:
http://www.myspace.com/sofiakarlsson

Her website:
http://www.sofiakarlsson.com/

EXPLORING THE BOUZOUKI by Jim Cowdery

I haven't got this book yet, but I think I will buy it soon. Does anyone has got it? What do you think about it? Please leave a comment.







You can buy it at:

http://www.andysfronthall.com/paypal/fhbooks.html

or here:

http://elderly.com/also/books/items/40-4.htm

Plan for building bouzouki

If you are looking for a plan to build a bouzouki there are some websites which may be of interest:

You can buy the plan on the right here:
https://luth.org




And here's an article of building one of them:
https://hilmarhanssoninstruments.blogspot.com/2013/06/georges-irish-bouzouki.html


Dunwell guitar: Let's build a bouzouki:
http://www.dunwellguitar.com/BuildBouzouki/BuildZouk1.htm

Here's an article on building a bouzouki from McDonald Strings:

http://www.mcdonaldstrings.com/docs/bb_moulded_soundboards.pdf

This book might be a good start:
https://www.amazon.com/Bouzouki-Book-Workshop-Building-Bouzoukis/dp/0646436023

Or use a kit for building your instrument:


http://flipflopflyers.com/bouzouki/

Musichord 3.0 - Chords for Bouzouki

If you are looking for a program which is able to show chords and much more have a look at this:

http://www.rpsoft2000.com/music/mandolin-chord.htm

Here's what they say on the website:

If you have a mandolin, cittern or bouzouki and are looking for a chord reference for its specific tunings, we believe that Musicord 3.0 is very much the right place to look. Musicord 3.0 will handle string instruments of 4, 5 or 6 "courses" of strings. By "course" we mean sets of either one string, a string pair, or a string triplet. The actual image shows the "courses" (fingering positions) and not all of the strings for multi-string instruments as mandolins, bouzoukis and citterns. So an 8 string mandolin or an 8 string bouzouki will each be displayed as a 4 string instrument. A ten string cittern will be displayed as a five string instrument.

Both right hand viewing and left hand viewing is available. Also "capo" or bar fingering down the neck or fretboard of the instrument. Many presets are available for what we understand may be the more common tuning for mandolins, bouzoukis and citterns. If none of these preset string tunings work for you, Musicord also allows setting up a custom string tuning - and even the save of a set of custom tuned stringed instruments to be used later.

Unfortionally this programm isn't available for MAC-users. So I did not test it. If you have got any experience with this program please leave a comment.

Stephen Doherty & Zac Leger

A set of two tunes. The first one is left unknown, the second one is called "The Mother Reel". http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif



Zac Leger comes from San Diege, Ca. He now is living in in Columbus, Ohio. He has got a homepage at myspace:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=86613720
Listen to the music samples there.

Stephen Doherty's page at myspace:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=141440977