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Anyone here play oud?

ole Jason

ole Jason

Apr 3, 2003
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I'm planning on getting myself an oud for christmas this year. Anyone have experience on Turkish vs. Egyptian? I'm not sure which one I want. I've found a builder in Turkey offering beginner ouds that have gotten very good reviews for $280. I'm fairly skeptical of the ouds on ebay, it seems like most of them are more for decoration than playing. Any ideas of online places thatsell ouds? I found larkinthemorning but they didnt really have anything that jumped out at me.
 
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Ole jason, I saw ouds as well as many other uncommon, 'ethnic'- whatever that means(aren't we all 'ethnic' in one way or another?)- instruments. The website is called exotic stringed instruments or something. If I remember or find it again I'll PM you. I also don't get a good feeling from a lot of ebay stuff of this nature, FWIW.
 
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I just emailed Haluk as a matter of fact... he has some beginner ouds for sale for $283 shipped to America. They look to be of very good quality for their price and they are meant to be played, not just looked at.

I think we'll definately need some kind of support group haha. I've played guitar and fretless bass for a long time so I feel like I have a slight advantage going into all of this as far as intonation and fingering. The right hand stuff definately has me worried though haha How fun would it be to pull out your oud next time a guitarist makes a comment about your instrument being "easy" :)
 
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ole Jason said:
I've played guitar and fretless bass for a long time so I feel like I have a slight advantage going into all of this as far as intonation and fingering.
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I used to live in Richmond. (Actually Newby.) I also play (only) fretless, and the guitar (see link in sig). Is this one of those time travel weirdness stories?
 
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Kelly Coyle said:
I used to live in Richmond. (Actually Newby.) I also play (only) fretless, and the guitar (see link in sig). Is this one of those time travel weirdness stories?
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Wow that's weird. Did you go to school here in Richmond? Nice guitar playing and nice acoustic tone btw.

On anouder (ha!) note what's up with the low string tuning on an oud? I have yet to find an explanation on why it's down a whole step from the A strings. I did find an article that said some people tune it all the way down to E, which would probably make a lot more sense for us.
 
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ole Jason said:
Wow that's weird. Did you go to school here in Richmond? Nice guitar playing and nice acoustic tone btw.

On anouder (ha!) note what's up with the low string tuning on an oud? I have yet to find an explanation on why it's down a whole step from the A strings. I did find an article that said some people tune it all the way down to E, which would probably make a lot more sense for us.
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UK. I was sharing a house with some friends out there as some kind of hippy fantasy thing.

I think the explanation for the tuning is that that's how they tune them. I hope there's a method book in English...
 

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