Pre-owned Signature Short Scale Bouzouki for sale

We’ve been making bouzouki’s since 1975, the first one was commissioned by Mike Harding, and Sam Fender is currently playing one made to that same design, but I've slowly reduced  the range of options we offer to focus on what I think is important.  

As with guitars, all you have to do is examine the Fylde customer list to see the experience we have.

There are a lot of “Irish” bouzoukis out there,  mostly from single person workshops and usually made to the same general  idea - a shallow body and large soundhole.  Many of them are wonderful, but the sound is generally “breathy”, rather light in tone with little headroom to let you play hard.

I don’t like them, I much prefer a deep, rich  background of bass response - a coat of dark paint across the whole tonal range. That comes from a small soundhole and deeper body to get a lower  body resonance. You get headroom from heavier, stiffer timbers like Rosewood and Spruce .

And here we are - a Short Scale  “Arch Top”, made in 2008.  Its in excellent condition, just a few small marks from 17 years of use. Jon Doran played it this week and immediately remarked “isn't it loud!”

It’s a full, dark sound and you can play it as hard as you like. The short scale (596mm) is good for both chords and melody.  We’ve fitted a new nut for octave stringing, but we can change that for unison if you prefer and I'm happy to discuss any part of that.

These don’t become available very often,  its for sale at £3,500, including  case. - SOLD