with Daoiri Farrell, who talks about his custom-made instrument and traditional Irish music. Find more from Daoiri at: www.daoiri.com Find us on facebook: / thestringdom Recorded: Dublin, August 2017.
When he started singing, I noticed he sounded so familiar. Then I remembered, Daoiri was the one singing Galway Girl along with other musicians when their flight was delayed
@@FordyHunt I, as well! Fantastic player and singer. Found this other video of him, performing Creggan White Hare, at the 2017 Celtic Colours International Festival. Phenomenal performance and recording of this exact instrument. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eFx7K4Isylo.html
Don't feel bad about not having heard an Irish Bouzouki before; the I.B. is a relatively new instrument from the early 1970s. Picked up my first one about 15 months ago! Wish I could play like Daoiri Farrell!
Opie Riddle - he does a pretty phenomenal job. The best pickers are the ones who can vocalize the story they’re playing on their instrument at the same time. He is seamless in his playing and singing.
I play (Greek) bouzouki and only learned about Irish bouzouki when someone asked me why my trixordo "wasn't flat". It sounds good! It's tuned like trixordo/6-string bouzouki, except with a G added, which is pretty similar but is played very differently!
The three course Greek bouzouki is probably the more well known in Ireland because of its use in Irish trad by people like Alec Finn, but yeah, looking at it from a Greek point of view the four course is obviously far more common these days.
The plaque on the wall is my Aunt Roisin, who died in a car crash in the '70's, at least I bet it is. Anyone know what the building is they are filming in?
the modern version of Greek bouzouki has 8 strings 9 (C-F-A-D) and the old version (before the end of WW1) has 6 strings (D-A-D) nowadays bouzouki's players (μπουζουκτσήδες bouktsides) use the modern vesion but there best of them who play rebetika use the old version
The Greek bouzouki is not only with 6 strings as the player says . It has 2 versions , one with 6 strings which rules since 1955 and with 8 strings which rules since then . That doesn't mean that you don't find today a 6 string, you can find both. Usually the lovers of rembetiko songs as myself we play the 6 string. Nice video !
My dudes great melody I'm practicing counter point in my mandolin studying playing in-between the lines lol👍👍👍🎵🎶🎶🎵 great singing also I wish to meet you someday in america are home is open doors to musicians🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🎶🎵🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍👍👍
Didn't know till now that Daoiri has Rainey ancestors, There's a Donal O'Rainne (=Donald Rainey) in Galway making beaut bouzoukis, small world closing in on us again
I got my first Irish bouzouki 2 weeks ago. Hoping to start online lessons with Daoiri very soon. Everyone is a newbie at some stage. It's going to be a great learning experience for us :)
Modern Greek Bouzoukis have also 8 strings but the tuning is slightly different and the playing Style is another world, that reminds more on a mix of arabesque, spanish and gypsy sounds,to describe the greek sound.its very special. But basically it is the same instrument. Due to the flatback the sound varies a little making it what has become "irish". I love both . You irish folk have a similar Energy of live that makes it fine.
The 8 string Greek bouzouki is tuned liked the highest (in pitch) four strings of a guitar, but a whole step lower... CFAD in pairs, with octaves on the C and F. The Irish bouzouki is most often tuned GDAD. So I guess they are 1/2 the same instrument in that sense.
@@c.a.t.732 is often tuned GDAE, mine is a Fender and I've own it for about 20 yrs now and practice daily, mostly play for friends and at church. I have never met another player with a Fender Irish Bouzouki, I would guess Fender didn't sell many and stoped the production after a short time. Irish Bouzoukis were unheard of 20-25 years ago here in the southwestern USA. It also adds a lot when I play local Northern New Mexico music a genre of only Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. Music is a heart with a beat that keeps this old man going, age 81!
@@MrPHart Seems like most Irish musicians tune their bouzoukis GDAD (the tutorials I've seen on RU-vid all have that tuning) although GDAE is indeed another. The latter is how I tune my octave mandolin, which as you may know has a shorter scale-length and has unison tuning on all the strings. I knew about Fender Irish bouzoukis and octave mandolins through my local music store... they are a Fender dealer, although they didn't actually stock those particular instruments. But they were able to order a Fender octave mandolin bridge for me to replace the one on my Johnson octave mando... I liked the idea of a bridge that was adjustable for height, as most bouzouki and oct, mando bridges aren't. A couple of years later I wanted to get another for my Trinity College instrument, but found out they were out of stock... I guess that was the time Fender stopped offering those instruments. I'm not familiar with Northern New Mexico/Southern Colorado genre music. Any examples on RU-vid you could recommend? Here in Northern California Irish bouzoukis and octave mandolins have been around since the 80s, but I didn't get my octave until the early 2000s, although the first instrument I taught myself to play was the regular mandolin in 1971. As you say, music can keep one going. I play my octave mando every day... it's the closest thing I have to a spiritual practice.
Such an unpretentious, engaging fellah. And a great singer and player. I wonder how many bouzoukis got purchased on the strength of this vid? And if I'm ever stuck in an airport, bemoaning my delayed flight, can I book you for a couple of hours??
I couldn't help but be curious about the plaque in the background: Indíl chuimhne ar Róisín Finn (Preston) a rinne obair éachtach ar son an chomhaltais agus a maraíodh go tubaisteach sa bhliain 1978. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam uasal - Bronnta ag comhairle na breataine, G.G.E. As such, I entered it in to a translator and came up with the following: (hopefully it is close to correct) In memory of Róisín Finn (Preston) who did a great job on behalf of the consortium and was killed in disasters in 1978. On the right hand of God is her noble soul . - Awarded by the British Council, G.G.E.
RealYellowbeard wow such attentive watching! I spent hours editing the video and didn't think to check out the plaque. Do you speak Gaelic? I'm sure Daoiri would know the story, he has a long history with that school!
Do you remember the school name? You mention it is in Dún Laoghaire, but you get right to the guest and the instrument, with very little lead-in. (Excellent interview by the way! Very interesting.) I don't speak Gaelic at all, but as an Engineer I am insatiably curious about odd things for no real reason at all. Languages fascinate me, and Gaelic seems to break so many rules... so I made it a project this morning while it rained to figure out what the very prominent sign said.
RealYellowbeard the place was Comhaltas CeoltóIrí ÉIreann, in Monkstown actually. Its a real hub of Irish music dance and culture from what I understand. It was a weekday morning we met so it was pretty quiet there at the time but I think they host a whole load of events and ceilidh dances etc!
It seems accurate enough to me that you'd get the meaning (im not the best at Irish though) although its the Troubles not disasters. The Troubles was a period of persistent terrorism in Northern Ireland by the IRA that lasted from 1960-1998 i think. They set off a lot of bombs (it got to the point where it was like 2 a day for a whole year i think).
The 2 highest courses are unisons (a-a and d-d). The two lower courses are octaves (G-g and D-d). The difference between this and an octave mandolin is that the courses on the octave mandolin are all unison, and they’re (each) tuned G-D-A-E, where this is G-D-A-D. They are remarkably similar instruments, and the same music can be played on both if you just re-tune the top course when you need to switch.
Daoiri’s are strung in unison, which is more typical of an octave mandolin. But either way will work. He’s also using a capo in the fifth fret which makes this functionally equivalent to a mandola.
The "Irish Bouzouki" ia clearly an adaptation of the octave mandolin. It requires very little knowledge to ascertain. Octave mandolin... stretch neck... change two strings... voila... a bouzouki?
I guess technically it's more similar to an octave mandolin with the unison strings and all, but it was indeed adapted from the Greek bouzouki during the 60s and 70s folk revival. If you watch some really old Planxty clips for instance, Donál Lunny is still playing a Greek one.
@Christiaan Baron Normally we play Irish songs on an African instrument (banjo). Haha. I'm happy the Irish kept the word "bouzouki" for it to show its origins, rather than just inventing a new word or whatever. Imitation is flattering, not offensive. I'm happy, as a bouzouki player, with the adaptation, and maybe will learn Irish bouzouki some day, if I can save enough extra money for one (all bouzoukis are expensive, unfortunately, Greek and Irish both).
