Price to sell Tacoma DV-4?

[wa3jpg]

I have a range but thought I'd consult here before I put it out there. I need to sell my Tacoma DV-4, it is over a year with me (I'm the original owner) and almost perfect, along with the hardshell case. My only mod has been to re-compensate the bone saddle and slot the bridge. Would you imagine a "fair price" to be just over $500 or so?

Clark

 

[tjmangum]

Saw one in a local music shop last week for $495. Sounds as if you're in the range.
tj

 

[zplay]

I have a range but thought I'd consult here before I put it out there. I need to sell my Tacoma DV-4, it is over a year with me (I'm the original owner) and almost perfect, along with the hardshell case. My only mod has been to re-compensate the bone saddle and slot the bridge. Would you imagine a "fair price" to be just over $500 or so?

Clark

I haven't checked the market, but I know i paid $800 new for mine, so $500 sounds more than fair to me.

 

[wa3jpg]

Thanks, tj and zplay, its good to get a reality check. Hey, zplay, what part of EPA you from? I used to hail from Wilkes-Barre.

Now to prepare my craigslist ad, going to try to sell it locally and in person.

Clark

 

[zplay]

Thanks, tj and zplay, its good to get a reality check. Hey, zplay, what part of EPA you from? I used to hail from Wilkes-Barre.

Now to prepare my craigslist ad, going to try to sell it locally and in person.

Clark

Doylestown, Bucks County. Probably about 2 hours south.

 

[adorshki]

HI Clark; veering here but what the h--l is an Irish bouzouki? Thought a bouzouki was greek? As in the soundtrack for "Zorba the Greek"...
There's gotta be a great answer there!
And did you hear the one about the Macedonion software wizard? Zorba the Geek...

 

[taabru45]

HI Clark; veering here but what the h--l is an Irish bouzouki? Thought a bouzouki was greek? As in the soundtrack for "Zorba the Greek"...
There's gotta be a great answer there!
And did you hear the one about the Macedonion software wizard? Zorba the Geek...

The waters run deep around here, you should be able to get an answer to both of your questions. :lol: Steffan

 

[kostask]

The Irish bouzouki is derived from the Greek bouzouki, and the top is essentially the same. Instead of having a bowl shaped back made with staves (sections of wood), it has a back similar to an archtop guitar. It is used in a lot of Celtic music, and I believe it was first put to use in 1957-1958. I think it is used to emulate either bagpipes or some other, much earlier, instruments used in Celtic musics, but as I am no expert in Celtic music, I could stand to be corrected on that.

Kostas

 

[GuildFS4612CE]

A lot of the Celtic players I've seen play octive mandolins and call them bouzoukis...and play them much the same style as they play standard mandolin...which are tuned as the fiddle...so a lot of fiddle tunes are played on these instruments. Think of them as adding the same kind of extra dimension as playing a 12 string guitar...the strings are in courses on these instruments as well. A whole bunch of instruments in the same family...citterns for example.

Here's someone playing a typical celtic tune on the octive mando:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UkT3uJL ... re=related

Here's a good demo with info on an Irish Bouzouki:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOj-KGw29Dk

A couple more indifferent styles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebu2eDEi4ao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTu01U-ST40

and a cittern:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nungkbYs ... re=related

Link to some sound clips from this page as well as a lot of info on the various instruments:

http://www.pwcrumpco.com/

and some more technical info:

http://www.ceolas.org/instruments/cittern.html

And some people do play it as a rhythm instrument.

That should be enough for your first celtic music lesson. :mrgreen:

 

[wa3jpg]

Ah, the Irish Bouzouki - I like to describe it as a really big mandolin. Everyone else has given a good piece of the definition, too. I have both an Octave Mandolin (a big mandolin) and an Irish Bouzouki ( a really big mandolin) and I'd love to find a Mandocello (a really, really big mandolin). It gets worse, there is a "mando bass" - though I've never seen one up close. So the Octave Mandolin is one octave below the mandolin (tuned like a violin) and the Irish Bouzouki is the same, but a longer scale (and larger body usually) - a basic guitar length of the fretboard. The Mandocello would be two octaves below the mandolin. The Mando Bass below that.

Zorba the Geek, nice. I'm taking that one to my students this morning.

Clark

 

[adorshki]

THANK YOU ALL! When I was a teen there was a band in town called the Celtic Tradition but it was never really my cup of tea, except for a little Fairport Convention... but man I love the timbre of the greek instrument (as well as the scales)...I'd like to try one of those Irish bouzoukis, sounds like it'd be a little easier to handle than the greek body style. While I'm veering on greek music again, anybody here like Anton Karas's Third Man zither theme?

 

[fungusyoung]

Thanks, tj and zplay, its good to get a reality check. Hey, zplay, what part of EPA you from? I used to hail from Wilkes-Barre.

Now to prepare my craigslist ad, going to try to sell it locally and in person.

Clark

Doylestown, Bucks County. Probably about 2 hours south.

Pretty funny, I'm smack dab in the middle of those 2 spots... in Bethlehem, PA.

We're gonna have to move to CT full-time probably early next year... gonna really miss these parts.

 

[Pike]

My only mod has been to re-compensate the bone saddle and slot the bridge.

Why did you slot the bridge Clark?

 

[12stringer]

Man...after hearing the sound clips of the Irish Baouzouki I am blown away! Thanks for posting them Jane. 8)

 

[GuildFS4612CE]

My pleasure. Glad you liked them.

Wish I had audio/video of some of the great players I've sat in with in the past...ah, memories. :wink:

 

[wa3jpg]

Hi Pike -

I slotted the bridge on the advice of several luthiers. You can check Frank Ford's site and Bryan Kimsey's site and find information on the benefits. Mostly, it will save the bridge plate underneath from wear and tear due to slotted bridge pins. Secondly, some believe it makes firmer contact with the strings, pins and balls so that sound is transferred a bit better (degree of change possibly slight). It is how the famous pre-war guitars were built and many of the higher end guitars are still built. I'm not sure it affected the sound of this DV-4 any more than the buffalo horn pins I put on after slotting, it just sounded good to me.

Clark