Re: Who made the first "Celtic" mandolins?
So then, it was not O'Gibson of Kalamazoo, County Kalamazoo? I didn't think so ...
But a related question I've often wondered, how did the Irish bouzouki come to be called that, when it bears only a passing resemblance to the Greek bouzouki? Was the instrument introduced to The Emerald Isle by Greeks, and then adapted? Or is there another explanation (or several)?
I suppose the answer is found in those articles, but ...
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