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Despite famously composing much of Hounds of Love on a synthesizer - the Fairlight CMI - she melded those electronic sounds with acoustic folk instruments, such as balalaikas, bouzoukis and didgeridoos.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2022

Arshag still has his dad’s old instruments — the ouds, bouzoukis, banjos, synths and mandolins.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2021

In a 240,000-square-foot factory an hour east of New York City, several hundred workers buzz from shift to shift making strings for guitars, violins, Greek bouzoukis and Turkish ouds, some 700,000 per day.

From Forbes • Aug. 20, 2014

Working with a new translation by Aaron Poochigian, the company is portraying Jason’s adventures in free performances across the city, using masks, wild costumes, drummers and the Greek guitars known as bouzoukis.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2012

First came the semiofficial merrymaking, amid champagne toasts, flowers and bouzoukis, on the afterdeck of the Onassis yacht Christina.

From Time Magazine Archive