Custom Tzouras | Handmade Custom Designed Professional 6 String Greek Solid Body Tzouras

Handmade custom designed professional 6 string Greek solid body tzouras

Characterisitics

Body: Solid body carved, from a single piece European maple

Top: Made from solid European spruce AA' quality with binding on the sides
carved in the top

Soundhole: Round style with a rosette from maple on the top and a second
soundhole oval style with ebony rosette in the back of the body

Neck: Made from a single piece European maple

Fingerboard: Made from solid ebony with peal dots carved in and maple binding
on the sides

Bridge: Made from solid ebony

Nuts: Made of bone

Headstock: Made of maple

Machine heads: Grover

Finish: Satin finish

Scale length: 62 cm

Note: Each tzouras is made with handpicked tone woods and made by hand,
therefore each one is unique in sound and look. We also provide a free gig bag,
a set of strings and special picks

Tzouras is an instrument that came in Greece from the Greek immigrants of
Minor Asia in the early 1900's
It is consider the medium version of the bouzouki “family”, between the
bouzouki and the baglamas
It is used for “Rebetico” music.
Rebetico is the “Greek blues”, music that was made most of the times from the
players themselves, and used to talk about life itself, romance, crimes, drugs
etc
It is also main instrument and can either be used for solo or rhythm
It has three double (3) strings, six (6) in total, tuned in the same octave as
the three-string bouzouki
Due to the medium size of it, has a more metallic sound that defines it,
almost as a banjo.
The tuning is Dd-aa-dd. The top strings are in octave apart (D string) and the
two bottom strings are in unison (A & D string)

Rebetico music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ1U8f9GJM8&list=PLfYd6bvI-O-ziXsg9S6tRk-rFXHjIcnhW

Tzouras solo music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVmzu7AN_34