Baglamas
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The baglamas, plural baglamades or baglamadaki, a long necked bowl-lute, is a plucked string instrument used in Greek music; it is a smaller version of the bouzouki pitched an octave higher, with unis
Greek baglamas in opened case
Rebetiko
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Rebetiko, plural rebetika, occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used to designate previously disparate kinds of urban Greek music which in the 1930s went through a process o
Baglamas
…highest strings and an octave pair on the lower D. Musically, the baglamas is most often found supporting the bouzouki in the Piraeus city style of rebetiko. The body is often hollowed out from a piece of wood (skaftos, construction) or else made from a gourd, but there are also baglamades with staved backs…
Rebetes in the Karaiskaki Square, Piraeus (1933)
Dimitrios Semsis (violin), Agapios Tomboulis (oud) and Roza Eskenazi (voice), the Smyrna Trio (Athens, 1932)
Trixordo or three course (three double string) bouzouki