Hibari-San - 6-18-2016 at 01:48 PM
I have built a buzuq or bouzouki !?
Maybe you could help me identify this instrument 
Sounds courious I know, but i built it without a plan just intuitively.
It has a short scale (53cm) 4 pairs of strings and at the moments greek strings (also tuned to CDAF)
Body walnut (70 years old), neck maple, top spruce
Jody Stecher - 6-18-2016 at 02:12 PM
Given the 53 cm scale I would say it is a sort of mandola. It looks nice. I don't understand the tuning. Which direction are you going please? High to
low? Low to high? Standard Greek bouzouki low to high would be C F A d. It's like the 4 high strings of a guitar one step low and the C and F tuned
in octaves and the two high courses in unison. Mandola tuning would be C G d a.
Hibari-San - 6-19-2016 at 01:13 AM
Ohhhh sorry !!! It is indeed CFAD the typical greek tuning. I dont know why I typed it that wrong 
Kelly - 9-4-2016 at 11:51 AM
Nice work Hibari. Looks a handsome instrument. I'd be interested in sound file if you could post one?