At the end of January 2013 Mira Omerzel - Mirit went to island of Cyprus - to visit her Greek friends and to get a new bouzouki, as her old instrument was not good enough. The new bouzouki fulfilled her dreams that she had been carrying for a year and a half. When she was exploring the rich cultural heritage of the island in the 2011, she fell in love with the Greek bouzouki - an interesting instrument - a mixture of guitar, tambura, balalaika and mandolin. Bouzouki truly is something special. Under Mirit's fingers it sounds soft and meditative. Greeks couldn't believe it: "Women don't play this male instrument!" How come not? Mirit does! In Greece bouzouki is still a male privilege. They play it very energetically and often quite roughly. Mirit prefers to bring out dreamy melodies, Greek, Arabic, Byzantine, Dalmatian, Russian and Slovene: that is, Oriental and Slavic. And she also improvises. With its velvet and piercing sound she enthralls the audiences at concerts of ensemble Vedun ([ Ссылка ]) and occasionally also the participants of her workshops ([ Ссылка ]). Most Slovenians and neighbouring Croats just love bouzouki. Takis was first to show her how to play it. And Nicos Karaviotis unveiled her some skillfulness of the play. She also listened to other musicians, to sense the essence of playing. The sounds of the new bouzouki are now more beautiful, clearer and even more dreamy. They pierce deeply into soul and heart. A true sound "surgical" tool.

Unfortunately we couldn't publish the video in which Mira and Nicos are playing famous greek melodies. Nowadays most publishers claim the rights for almost all of the popular songs, therefore we would break their "rights" with uploading the video!?

Mirit se je konec januarja 2013 podala na otok Ciper - h grškim prijateljem in po nov buzuki. Star inštrument je bil namreč preslab. Nov buzuki pa ji je izpolnil sanje, ki jih je pestovala leto in pol. Ko je leta 2011 prvič raziskovala bogato kulturno dediščino tega otoka, se je namreč zaljubila v grški buzuki, zanimivo glasbilo - mešanico kitare, tambure, balalajke in mandoline. Res je buzuki nekaj posebnega. Pod Mirinimi prsti zazveni nežno in meditativno. Grki kar niso mogli verjeti: ženske vendar ne igrajo na to »moško« glasbilo! Kako da ne? Mirit ga! Buzuki je v Grčiji še vedno namreč moški privilegij. Nanj igrajo zelo energično in pogosto celo grobo. Mirit pa iz njega najraje izvablja sanjave melodije, tako grške, arabske, bizantinske, dalmatinske, ruske in slovenske; orientalske in slovanske torej. Pa tudi improvizira nanj. Z žametnim in prodornim zvokom tega glasbila navdušuje poslušalce na koncertih ansambla Vedun ([ Ссылка ]), občasno pa tudi udeležence njenih delavnic ([ Ссылка ]). Večina Slovencev in sosednjih Hrvatov naravnost obožuje buzuki. Takis ji je na Cipru prvi pokazal, kako se nanj igra. Nicos Karaviotis pa ji je razkril nekatere umetelnosti igre. Prisluhnila je tudi drugim glasbenikom, da bi dojela bit muziciranja nanj. Zvoki novega buzukija pa so sedaj še lepši, jasnejši, še bolj sanjavi. Prodrejo v globino duše in srca. Pravo zvočno »kirurško« orodje.

Žal videa, v katerem Mira in Nicos igrata znane grške melodije nismo mogli objaviti. Dandanes si večina založb v tujini lasti skoraj vse popularne pesmi, zato bi z videom krišili njihove "pravice"!?

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