The first bouzouki workshop
The luthier of Makriyanni's tamboura!
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Traditional Greek costume of 19th century:Created with 3D software by SDimis
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From an article of Nikos Politis' (researcher of Greek traditional and rebetiko music) blog, in the Rebetiko forum we collect the following information:
"The bouzouki was apparently not particularly well-known among the refugees from Asia Minor, but had been known by that name in Greece since at least 1835, from which year a drawing by the Danish artist Martin Roerbye has survived.
It is a view of the workshop of the Athens luthier Leonidas Gailas from Chios, whom the artist describes as "fabriccatore di bossuchi"(-bouzouki). The drawing clearly shows guitars, tambourades, lyres and a number of bouzouki-like instruments.Between other tools we can identify a precise compass tool for the design of instruments' bowl.
At the National Historical Museum of Athens is been exposed a "tambouras", which belonged to the General of the Greek army Makriyannis (1797–1864). In 1994 this instrument been given to the traditional luthier Niko Fronimopoulo for repair and restoration. A few years later Nikos Fronimopoulos discovered the obvious similarities between Makriyannis tamboura and the instruments at the workshop of Gailas, portrayed at Martin Roerbye's drawing.
After a small research on the soundboard of Makriyanni's instrument and inside the decoration of the rosette, Nikos Fronimopoulos was able to find the initials L. G. (Leonidas Gailas)."
"The bouzouki was apparently not particularly well-known among the refugees from Asia Minor, but had been known by that name in Greece since at least 1835, from which year a drawing by the Danish artist Martin Roerbye has survived.
It is a view of the workshop of the Athens luthier Leonidas Gailas from Chios, whom the artist describes as "fabriccatore di bossuchi"(-bouzouki). The drawing clearly shows guitars, tambourades, lyres and a number of bouzouki-like instruments.Between other tools we can identify a precise compass tool for the design of instruments' bowl.
At the National Historical Museum of Athens is been exposed a "tambouras", which belonged to the General of the Greek army Makriyannis (1797–1864). In 1994 this instrument been given to the traditional luthier Niko Fronimopoulo for repair and restoration. A few years later Nikos Fronimopoulos discovered the obvious similarities between Makriyannis tamboura and the instruments at the workshop of Gailas, portrayed at Martin Roerbye's drawing.
After a small research on the soundboard of Makriyanni's instrument and inside the decoration of the rosette, Nikos Fronimopoulos was able to find the initials L. G. (Leonidas Gailas)."
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