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Thank you, sir

D, G, D

Wow, so glad to hear it! How's the learning going?

@@jackbeckett2838 Very well 😁

I made the bridge and tailpiece from some wood scraps

If your bouzouki's bridge is straight (not staggered for intonation) you could swap the strings round to make it left handed. If it does have a staggered bridge it could still work but you might have intonation issues (going out of tune as you play up the neck). If this is the case the only thing you can really do is buy a left-handed instrument. You'd definitely save a lot of time and enjoy it more playing the way you're naturally oriented. Lack of knowledge of music as a whole is natural for every beginner, and comes with practice and growing your vocabulary as you learn. The most important tool for anyone learning an instrument is to develop your ear. If you can hum a tune, you can find the notes for it on an instrument, and with practice this will save you a lot of time and develop your ability to pick up songs like it's nothing. Chords take a bit longer to learn by ear, but once you've learnt the basic major/minor chords from tabs/charts/videos etc, you'll get a feel for where the notes are as the chord shapes stay the same, just the position moves. Aside from training your ear (which mainly comes with time and attention to detail), the best way to grow your vocabulary is to learn the songs you like. Chords and scales etc are all well and good, but I think it's best to learn them in the context of the music you like. It's much more compelling that way, inspires you to keep going, and gives you direction in where to start/where to go next. Hope this helps, if you have any other questions feel free to ask away.

Just a correction to my previous comment - if you have a staggered bridge and it isn't fixed you could just buy a left-handed bridge and swap the strings round rather than needing to buy a left-handed instrument

@@jackbeckett2838 Stupid question incoming (remember I'm not too knowledgeable at this stage) What do you mean by staggered vs straight? When I look at my bridge it does seem that the bass strings will only fit on the left side of the bridge and the higher strings will only fit on the right side. Is that what is meant by staggered? The same goes for the nut.

@@JackL-lv3he I don't know if they're actually called staggered, but in this context I mean the part of the bridge the string sits on will be closer or further away from the nut. Search "Irish bouzouki bridge" and you'll see what I mean. My one is straight, meaning all the strings sit the same distance from the nut. Good point about the nut/bridge slots being different sizes. You'd need a new nut for the strings to fit the other way, unless you're willing to do a bit of DIY. If your nut is straight like mine, you can just rotate it the other way to match the strings. That's the cheapest option. Either that or just get a left-handed bouzouki.

I made the bridge and tail piece from some wood scraps

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If the legends are true, heroin apparently

You clearly are in the desert city bazaar, where thieves and beggars are equally dangerous as they work for the criminal lord Alsamir Mahribba, ruthless and unpredictable in his wims, known and feared all across the lands by those who try to avoid paying their dues to him... What are you on about?

D, G, D

@@jackbeckett2838 Thank You

It's a long neck saz/baglama. I didn't make that though.

Thank you. Yes they're the first 3 strings from a viola set, (not using the thickest one). The body is pine, the top is spruce. There is some more info in the video description.

Come again?

@@jackbeckett2838 Looks like a yt bug posted my comment on the wrong video instead of the one I was watching at the time. Very cool bouzouki!

Looks like I was trying to post on a Sabine Hossenfelder video. Why it landed here I have no idea!

The clue is in the title 😉

I got the tuning pegs, nut and strings from Thomann, the endpin, fingerboard and spruce top on ebay. You could also get them from luthier suppliers and violin makers online.

Thanks for the response

Thank you!

Awesome. I'm curious to see how someone experienced with making instruments will build it.

Thanks Jane

Thank you, I made the body of this one a bit too thin as I had to take some material off the timber to get it flat, and I find it's lacking that mid range 'body' of the original, so hopefully yours will be better than mine! I should have the dimensions up later today or tomorrow at the latest. Yes, the nut, saddle and fingerboard are violin parts. I used viola tuning pegs, but violin ones would work fine too. The soundboard was from a spruce guitar top blank I got on ebay.

Thank you!

Thank you, it took a lot of sanding haha. I'm not sure, maybe it was the bass bar being flat and horizontal across the soundboard, rather than being tall and vertical. It resonates well enough. Not as loud as a violin, but loud enough to play with other acoustic instruments. Higher tension strings will be louder too, as will a thicker body. I don't have a sound post at the moment, but they also help it resonate.

@@jackbeckett2838 It must've! But how did you sand the connection between the neck and the back plate? (what tools?) I could only wish mine looked like that.

@@lolGer333h I used a random orbit sander to get the shape

Thanks for watching, glad you liked it!

Thanks, glad you liked it. I'm working on a video from the pictures/footage I took while making it. It should be on my channel by next week. The bow is from Thomann. It's a nyckelharpa bow I think.

​@@jackbeckett2838 can’t wait:)

This saz is a dirt cheap, low quality one that Thomann was producing a few years ago. I think it was something like £45. Mikolaj uses the "Saz" brand one from Thomann after he retired the one used on the Witcher soundtrack. That one was bought at a market in Poland, and despite being a cheap, unbranded instrument it sounds so iconic. Yes, the middle strings are removed and the strings are tuned to DD/GGG.

@@jackbeckett2838 Can you help me please? I just got a new saz and trying to tune 3 bottom strings to GGG...I've already ripped 2 strings, I can't get them to G. What am I doing wrong? I'm using the tuner on my smartphone.

@@jackbeckett2838 Do you have the upper D's stretched and the lower G's loosely stretched?

@@Mezin_covers What tuning did your saz arrive in? Are you tuning to the right octave? The D/G Percival tuning is lower than most saz tuning so tune down instead of up. Both courses of strings are quite loose on my saz. The low D is a D string from an electric guitar set, it's quite loose so a heavy gauge D or a light gauge A string might also work. You'll have to experiment with different strings to get them the right tension as they get quite loose.

@@jackbeckett2838 Unfortunately, I don't remember what tuning was on the saz. And I don't know what octave I need. The tuner shows me D4 or D3 when I hit it, and G4 or G3 in the low end. Is this the right octave? My saz came with 2 extra sets of Pyramid strings: 0.52 0.20 | 0.30 0.30 | 0.42 0.20 0.20 and I'm trying to tuning on them. Which ones are you using? Mikolaj has a very powerful and tight bass sound, do you know what kind of strings he uses?

They're definitely under appreciated for that, it would be nice to see them used for more than metal by modern players.

Thank you, glad you liked it.