Bouzouki the "tetrachordo" ("four-course") has four pairs of strings. The name "bouzouki" comes from the Turkish word "bozuk", meaning "broken" or "modified", and comes from a particular re-entrant tuning called "bozuk düzen", which was commonly used on its Turkish counterpart, the "saz-bozuk". It is in the same instrumental family as the mandolin and the lute. Originally the body was carved from a solid block of wood, similar to the saz, but upon its arrival in Greece in the early 1910s it was modified by the addition of a staved back borrowed from the Neapolitan mandola, and the top angled in the
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Suite Part II: Let It Grow", a song from the 1973 Grateful Dead album Wake of the Flood, includes the line "As well to count the angels dancing on a pin." In the comic book "The Crow" by James O'Barr, the main character asks this question to one of his victims before killing them, answering himself, "Depends on the tune". The song "Velodrome" from Minnesota rapper Dessa's 2018 album Chime, references this question in the first verse asking, "Aquinas, call on me/ How many angels on the/ Head of your pin?" How many angels can dance on the head of