Gold Tone BZ-1000 Guitar-Bodied Irish-Tuned Bouzouki Mandolin - New

The Irish bouzouki (or cittern) descends from the Greek bouzouki, which arrived in Ireland at the end of the 1960s and was quickly rebuilt to suit the music it landed in. The change that mattered was re-stringing the courses in unison rather than octaves — it traded shimmer for a dry, driving attack, and within a few years the instrument was fully integrated into Irish traditional and folk music as a backing voice.