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a long-necked Greek dragon that hums of taverns, smoke, and beautiful trouble.
means A long-necked, fretted Greek string instrument with a bright, metallic sound, central to the bouzouki-driven music of rebetiko and modern Greek song.
from From Modern Greek 'bouzouki' (μπουζούκι), generally traced to Turkish 'bozuk' — meaning 'broken' or 'modified,' likely referring to a particular way of tuning the strings ('bozuk düzen,' an irregular tuning). The instrument itself descends from the older family of long-necked lutes — the Turkish saz and Greek tambouras — that roamed the eastern Mediterranean for centuries. It became the defining voice of rebetiko, the smoky underworld music of early-20th-century Greek cities, which is exactly the taverns-and-trouble world the essence is humming about.
- foreign roots
- Greek icon actually descended from the Turkish saz
- rebel anthem
- defined rebetiko, the music of outcasts and hashish dens
- irish raid
- became a staple of Irish folk in the 1960s
- string math
- trichordo has six strings tuned in three pairs
- name origin
- likely from Turkish bozuk, meaning broken or modified
zorba the greek — 1964 film featuring iconic bouzouki theme by mikis theodorakis
dimitris sgouros — greek bouzouki master who popularized the instrument internationally from the 1970s
never on sunday — 1960 film with famous bouzouki soundtrack that defined the instrument's global image