>> What kind of guitar was it they were mostly using? > >Johnny Cradden (an Ulster-born Edinburgh man) adapted a guitar like >this some years ago and called it a "Gizouki". The one that Tantallon >had has obviously been specially made. John Bushby, the guy who mostly >played it in Tantallon, makes instruments so it may have been his own >design, influenced by Cradden, possibly? > Maybe more likely influenced by the chap from Altan (was it Ciaran Tourish?) who developed a similar instrument and called it, yes, the 'bizarre'.
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