A Blast from the past
This is a very special custom acoustic I made a few years ago for a good friend of mine ‘Duffy’. It has always remained a favourite as it’s so different from anything else I have built – a mixture of gypsy guitar and bouzouki. It has a 24 1/2″ scale length and 8 strings (4 pairs) so comes into the Bazouki family. It has a mahogany back and sides with a ceder top. The neck is also mahogany with an ebony fretboard.
This bouzouki is now Duffy’s main instrument. He uses his own tuning and plays a wide range of stuff which sounds amazing – click here to hear it played or here to see The Fabulous Duffy Gibbons, with Gibbons also playing his Bailey custom dreadnought.