Good evening to everyone in the group, and Happy New Year — wishing us all good health.
Over the next few days I’ll be travelling to Athens, and I’m planning to visit Vergetis’s instrument workshop. I happened to come across it a few years ago, and I was impressed by the way he spoke about his craft, the sound of a three-string bouzouki he had with a cedar top (I think), and his overall aesthetic.
Since I’ve been considering ordering a new instrument for quite some time, has anyone on the forum bought a three-string bouzouki from this particular maker?
Good evening, my friend,
if you go to Vergetis, you’ll experience culture shock—you’ll be transported back to another era.
Besides construction expertise, you’ll see other things at Takis’s place too; he’s a Man and a Master with a capital M… You may have to wait a while to collect your instrument, but you’ll enjoy it.
I had the opportunity to speak with Taki again about ordering an instrument and, while I was at it, he serviced a battered trichordo from the 1980s by Kleftogiannis (replacing the frets, cleaning it, replacing two tsamboukades (τσαμπουκάδες), and stabilising the bridge).
The instrument sounds exceptionally good again, and the audio result is below.
