Hi.
I've been playing folk music for well over a half century.
Growing up in a lower middle class, less than affluent
family, I had to scrimp & improvise to get the
instruments I was rabidly interested in learning/playing.
I mention this to preface the following opinion:
(This is an opinion mind you)
Having owned a variety of commercial
bouzoukis (two Trinitys, one Fylde, many
home-mades/converted jobbies, etc) I must say
that I have never ever had more pure fun than playing
my Epiphone 12-string guitar-to-bouzouki
conversion what with it's 2 sets of "useless"
"drones"/sympathetics"on the lower end - etc.
It's become my "go to" bouzouki of choice.
The point here: it certainly does not take a fancy
commercial instrument to have a ton of fun.
Each to their own opinion -- this is mine.
That's all. Dennis Havlena
Mackinac Straits, northern Michigan
Dual citizen, Canada/U.S.
dhavlena@gmail.com
http://DennisHavlena.com
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