Price: $2,175.00
Carvalho Root Portuguese Bouzouki
Solid walnut back and sides with maple binding. Wooden soundhole and armrest
Item ID: GR33209 Model No: ROOT
- Product Features
- Sycamore maple neck. A flat walnut fingerboard with a zero fret. Solid sycamore maple headstock with gold plated machine heads and pearloid buttons
- Wooden bridge and bone top nut. Simple style tailpiece with endpin. With truss rod.
- Made in Europe with European woods
- Product Specifications
- String gauges: .014 .018w .028w. 042
- Nut width: 40mm
- Width at 12th fret: 47mm
- Scale length: 655mm
- Max body depth: 84mm
- Body width: 400mm
- No Frets: 19
- Body length: 430mm: Overall Length: 940mm
- Made in: Portugal
- Model Number: ROOT
- New Line. Added to catalogue 21/11/24
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Bouzoukis Information
The Bouzouki is a long-necked Lute developed in Greece from its Turkish roots. Originally 6 stringed, it now usually has 8 strings tuned CFAD. It was picked up by Irish musicians travelling abroad and adapted for their use by retuning to GDAE or GDAD. Modern makers then started producing them with flat backs which made them almost identical to the octave mandola. The crucial difference is the scale length, which is longer. This can affect fingering, but also affects sound because the strings are ...read the full article
