I love both middle eastern and indian music. The Celtic Bouzouki has allowed me to explore these forms of music. I tried to learn the sitar, but that is a bigger musical endeavor than you can imagine.
With the long-neck Celtic Bouzouki and it’s 8 strings, you have a wonderful range to reach into new melodies and unique tunings.
Sometimes I use this custom drone instrument behind the main melodies. Most classical Indian music uses the Tanpura (drone instrument), so this custom version serves the same purpose.
This is a middle-eastern styled jam session on a few melodies I wrote. My Celtic Bouzouki is joined by a custom drone instrument and various hand percussion instruments.