!Professional Arabic Oud "The Arabian Nights" #AU2-CI with Soft Carry Case Very rare Oud made by Garabat de Bedrosian, Damascus 1958 $3,200.00 Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. their acoustic gestalts have persisted in music of In this sense, instruments such as the Indian sitar are classified as lutes. @David Sarile Thank you very much David!

On the other hand if we see Arabic parallel to English and other international languages a lot of research needs to be done. That’s why we have designed our loyalty program with you in mind. Al-Risala al-Sharafiya fi'l-nisab al-ta'lifiya. Originally, it had a tapered body of one piece with a neck and two crescent-shaped sound holes, much like some East Asian lutes, suggesting a common West Asian origin. reprint: Gattas 'Abd al-Malik Hashaba, Dar al-katib al-'arabi, Cairo, 1967. : laute; Sp. The lute that was prominent in European popular art and music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods originated as the Arab ʿūd. be moved at will, unlike the embedded metal frets on I really appreciate your kind comment! As an example of the lack of standardization I recall the 'oud used by the Moroccan band in the restaurant at Disney's Epcot Center about 1989. Apr 27, 2017, Middle Eastern Long-neck Lutes: Saz, Tambur, Etc. Copyright © 2005 Tonalsoft Inc. All rights reserved. using respectively ratios of 11 Nice article on the Oud! It is likely that the earliest ouds were carved from a solid piece of wood, much like the Chinese Pipa and Japanese Biwa which are also descendants of the ancient Persian barbat. by Mahmoud and Abdulqadir: (Note that, again, regular Pythagorean notation is sufficient for the One consistent pattern in oud stringing may seem odd to Western players accustomed to the pattern of attaching strings to the pegs of violins, guitars, etc. . Find professional Arabic Lute videos and stock footage available for license in film, television, advertising and corporate uses. Make Offer - New ! It’s encyclopedic . whose first flowering occurred during the 600s and 700s 3(-11 ... +6). Twentieth-century lutenists such as Julian Bream and Walter Gerwig (died 1966) successfully revived the lute and its repertory. . . Pythagorean notes, and also moved the placement of In Andalusia during the Muslim occupation of Spain (711–1492) the present form probably emerged, with a separate neck and round sound hole with a wooden rose (three sound holes are now common). Again, like fingering systems, I borrow from both and use the nail for special effects, often using the fingertip alone for a more basic sound. The earliest European lutes followed the Arab instruments in having four strings plucked with a quill plectrum. In more recent times a 6th course, usually single as opposed to the doubled courses on all other strings, was added; tuned to D (or rarely C for certain maqamat), it was often the first course in older ouds; most today are in the lowest place. It is worth remembering thru-out this Despite the fact that later theorists revised the placement of By the 18th century, keyboard instruments eclipsed the lute in popularity. The lute (العود) is  a string musical instrument that is very important in Middle Eastern music. This will allow you to play longer, easier and to put the effort into creativity rather than mechanics. . . These come in a thin, more-or-less pointed tip style made of lighter gauge translucent plastic and a round tip model made of heavier white opaque stock. standard 12edo tuning, my ("quarter-tones") in

REWARDS PROGRAM. The ones on most of the new ouds from Egypt are very brassy colored wrapped basses with nylon trebles. The entire system is an 18-tone Pythagorean chain Pythagorean chain. For many years Turkish and Armenian players, particularly Cabaret style, used this pattern up a step to EABEAD. The lute’s strings are arranged in courses, of two strings each, though the highest-pitched course usually consists of only a single string, called the chanterelle.

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today's fretted string instruments. I just use a capo if I need to go up from Arab standard. Thus an 8-course Renaissance lute will usually have 15 strings, and a 13-course Baroque lute will have 24. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LoUcF2U4c&feature=related.

Lute, in music, any plucked or bowed chordophone whose strings are parallel to its belly, or soundboard, and run along a distinct neck or pole. Some medieval theorists mention the frets of the ʿūd when discussing the proper note intervals of the maqāmāt, or melodic modes. Ibn Sinas Musiklehre.

and although I can see some advantages to the low string first concept, I altered it to the more modern position. .