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or you could accessorize it with a multi-colored satin cape like the cat in Acid Mothers Temple.

dubkitty wrote:

JereFuzz wrote:

Here's my (Romanian-made) Irish Bouzouki. Very nice and shockingly inexpensive. Haven't tried the EQ yet ...

i've been looking at Portuguese-style mandolins--the ones with the same kind of teardrop shape and flat top/back--and should have realized that the Romanians that make the hella-cheap ones would make bouzoukis too. that would be perfect to take on my road trip. hmmmmmm....can you play shoegaze on it?

I don’t see why not but its pickup is a piezo so you may be limited with distortions. Everything else should sound fine. It’s a Hora btw. And I like the deeper/bassist sound of the IB vs mandolin or octave mandolin.

i was sort of joking about the shoegaze thing, though i suppose that with the right tuning it'd work. the longer string length makes it thwaaaaaaaaaaaaang more than a mandolin.

so i think i'm gonna pick one of these up. i found a Hora model with finish/appointments that i prefer to the blonde one:



without the low-rent electronics. i prefer a microphone in front of an acoustic instrument, and if i need to electrify Luna (of all companies!) makes or made a solidbody bouzouki with two Firebird-style pickups that looks like an absolute weapon:

dubkitty wrote:so i think i'm gonna pick one of these up. i found a Hora model with finish/appointments that i prefer to the blonde one:



without the low-rent electronics. i prefer a microphone in front of an acoustic instrument, and if i need to electrify Luna (of all companies!) makes or made a solidbody bouzouki with two Firebird-style pickups that looks like an absolute weapon:

Dayum, you better wear a tank top and bandana when playing that AXE!

dubkitty wrote:so i think i'm gonna pick one of these up. i found a Hora model with finish/appointments that i prefer to the blonde one:



without the low-rent electronics. i prefer a microphone in front of an acoustic instrument, and if i need to electrify Luna (of all companies!) makes or made a solidbody bouzouki with two Firebird-style pickups that looks like an absolute weapon:

But it looks cool ... you may want to consider buying an attachable piezo and run it into an acoustimax.

if the soundhole were larger i would use the Seymour Duncan Acoustic Tube, which is what Ira from Yo La Tengo uses on his acoustic guitar. a piezo is possible, maybe something like those old Barcus-Berry surface-mount transducers that mounted with double-sided foam tape. the other thing about the stock pickup/pre is that i really dislike it when they cut a hole in the side of a defenseless acoustic instrument for the control panel.

I just bought one of these for $40CDN

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmY8XxCdLAI[/youtube]

MrNovember wrote:I just bought one of these for $40CDN

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmY8XxCdLAI[/youtube]

Look above - I have one in spruce. Very nice sound. I would like to make a song with the Dulcimer, electric bass, and Cumbus saz for a non-six string jam.

JereFuzz wrote:

MrNovember wrote:I just bought one of these for $40CDN

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmY8XxCdLAI[/youtube]

Look above - I have one in spruce. Very nice sound. I would like to make a song with the Dulcimer, electric bass, and Cumbus saz for a non-six string jam.

Oh, and the korg ms20 for some drone hiss

Sounds like a great jam!

Mine is the Mahogany one, currently tuned DAD. It is actually super fun to play and it's pretty great quality too

i have never, ever seen anyone playing a dulcimer in guitar position before...they're usually played sitting flat on your lap.

dubkitty wrote:i have never, ever seen anyone playing a dulcimer in guitar position before...they're usually played sitting flat on your lap.

Technically, these are diatonic instruments "inspired" by a duclimer. They have weird fret spacing, which I assume produces notes similar to what you would find on a dulcimer.

I'm still very surprised by how good they sound and feel.

yeah, the fret spacing is pivotal.

Somali kaban (oud lute) grooves!

Saw this dude opening for The Dwarfs of East Agouza (Sam Shalabi/Alan Bishop) a couple months ago:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twta4jFw7y8[/youtube]

His recent tape is also name-your-price on Bandcamp: https://omarbongo.bandcamp.com/album/gor-gor