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Oud is an short-necked, half pear-shaped, plucked lute of the Arab world, the direct ancestor of the European lute. Oud's name derives from al-oud (branch of wood).
There are five pairs of strings on an oud, each pair tuned to the same pitch, and a single string which is also the thickest and known as the bamteli in Turkish.
The most common way to tune the oud is to tune each string a fourth apart. The most common Turkish tuning with D being the highest open string is DAEBF#C#. |
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There is also an Arabic variant of this tuning where the intervals stay the same but the pitch of each string is dropped down by a full step; CGDAEB.
Some other tunings are CGDAGD, GDAEDA, DAEBAE, GDAEDA. Known both from documentation and through oral tradition, it is considered the king, sultan or emir of musical instruments. |
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It is the principal instrument of the Arab world, and is of secondary importance in Turkey ( ud ), Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan. It plays a lesser role in Greece ( outi )."
It also plays an important role in north African countries, such as Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, and Sudan.
Oud has a very short neck and this allows player to perform very fast...
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On quality ouds (oud-1 and oud-4), we use Ebony wood for pegs and fingerboards. On oud-1 Ebony fingerboard expands to the big horn cage. On oud-2 and oud-3 pegs, cages and fingerboards are walnut or rosewood.
We produce instruments generally traditional with wooden pegs. However, for easy and lasting tuning, we use quality guitar pegs optionally with 25$ extra price.
We also varnish soundboards on ouds if requested.
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