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Topic: New CD from forgotten Greek steel pioneer |
Andy Volk
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Posted 31 Jan 2017 4:38 am |
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Thanks to Les Cook for the heads up on this one ...
http://olvidorecords.com/news
"The first-ever compilation of χαβάγιες ("havagies"), the nearly forgotten Hawaiian-influenced music of 1930s Greece, focused on the compositions of Kostas Bezos and his ensemble White Birds." You can download a digital copy from the Bandcamp link for $10 that comes with an extensive PDF of all the background info and photos. Great to support this kind of scholarship for our instrument. I'm listening to it now.
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David M Brown
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Posted 31 Jan 2017 5:45 am
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| Thanks, this is doubly interesting for those of us that play steel guitar AND play Greek music. |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 31 Jan 2017 8:23 am
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Kirk Francis
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Posted 31 Jan 2017 9:22 am forgotten greek steel pioneer
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| great stuff! makes me want to toss back a few ouzos and break some plates! |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 31 Jan 2017 9:29 am
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Andy Volk
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 31 Jan 2017 4:41 pm
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This sounds very interesting. My Greek/Dutch wife can finally enjoy some of my music!
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David M Brown
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Posted 1 Feb 2017 5:35 am
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Sweet - solid body set of bouzouki family instruments! I've never seen those particular makes before. |
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David M Brown
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Posted 1 Feb 2017 5:35 am
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I dig the 'oud (outi in Greek) and the 12 ouzo |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 1 Feb 2017 7:17 am
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David M Brown
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 6:16 am
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on the right is a Turkish Baglama Saz, maple chambered body with spruce top and Shadow Saz Sensor pickup. 30" scale and quarter-tone frets.
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The fretting looks a bit different from the Bağlama sazes I've owned which were like this, so I'm curious about your fretting. Your do not seem to be tied on and moveable.
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 10:53 am
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David M Brown
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 3:32 pm
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| The "real" saz I templated the electric one from is set up like the illustration. The "Electro-Saz" has actual frets and even divisions, whole tone, three-quarter tone, half tone, quarter-tone. I hardly ever use it, it's still in storage in California.It's pretty fussy with the long scale and string breakage. |
What are you trying to tune the long neck electro saz to?
On most of the ones I've seen the treble (so to speak) string was tuned between A and C. If you want to go to D you would need a short neck...or a saz capo, which they have.
Very cool, thanks. |
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