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| | Reghin's bouzouki is sold under a variety of brand names: Hora, Trubadour, Amigo etc. It's a Romanian-made affordable isntrument with a flat solid-wood top and a really nice sound, well beyond any other low-priced big mando I've heard of.
Although the manufacturers doesn't actually say so, this is very much an "Irish bouzouki." You can use it the Greek way too, but it's in a Celtic setting it really shines.
Pickup alternativesI swear I wasn't even going to use it on that first gig! I just brought it along to while away the breaks, and then I happened to have a spare Sound Checker...
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This is a match made in Heaven. No matter where you place that Sound Checker on the Reghin zouki, the sound is good. In the optimal spot (underneath the strings close up to the bridge) it's perfect!
Before I found the optimal position I experimented a bit with using two Sound Checkers. It did improve the sound quite a lot, but once I found that spot for one of them, the other became superfluous.
I actually bought the K&K specifically for this instrument. Not bad at all, but a bit too rough a sound. Sound Checker turned out to be better in this particular case.
It wasn't that bad actually. Seems the Reghin zouki sounds good through most any pickup you can imagine. The tinbox sound and feedback that is so characteristic of the ACCU_STIC was still there though.