Bouzouki Strings

Our bouzouki set is built with silver-plated and steel strings for a bright, articulate response with strong projection — the ringing, cutting voice the instrument is known for. Loop end, so it fits a traditional tailpiece without adaptation, and gauged so the tension sits evenly across the courses rather than leaving the bass courses slack and the top ones tight.

The set

BZK1128 runs .011–.028. It is our standard set and the only one we make, chosen to work across traditional and modern playing rather than favouring either. Eight strings in four courses: the top two courses are paired in unison, and the bottom two are paired in octaves, which is what gives the instrument its ring.

Gauges

Eight strings in four courses. The two wound strings take the bottom two courses, each paired with a thinner plain string an octave above.

How Bouzouki compares to our other specialty sets

This is the only bouzouki set we make. For other course-strung instruments we make mandolin sets in phosphor bronze, and bajo sexto and bajo quinto sets in nickel and phosphor bronze. All of them are loop end.

Made in the USA.