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Tzouras is a Greco-Turkish traditional stringed music organ, the “middle” brother of Bouzouki and Baglamas as it has the fretboard’s length of the first but the soundbox’s dimension of the latter. It is also called “μεσομπούζουκο”, meaning half bouzouki.

After the first immigrants from Asia Minor came to Greece, the genre rebetika began to evolve (the Greek blues in some sense).
If bouzouki is preferred for the ease of playing it and baglamas for the ease of moving it around, tzouras is positioned directly in the middle.
All these three instruments are descendants of the Byzantine’s pandouras and tambouras. The also known Irish bouzouki is a more recent development that emerged after the introduction of the Greek instrument into Irish music by J. Moynihan in 1965.

For our tzouras, we use walnut wood for the instrument’s body, maple and rosewood for its arm, spruce wood for the soundboxe’s top, and rosewood for its fretboard. It is worth mentioning here that every kind of wood is carefully chosen for every part of the instrument, taking into account its “musicality” and its durability, but staying close to the instrument’s tradition.

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