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Oud Lovers / Tortoise shell ouds?

« on: April 14, 2015, 04:31:22 AM »

Are tortoise shell ouds illegal to commercialize in Europe? I don't want one for myself, I'm just curious because it seems like tortoise shams or pickguards are greatly appreciated by some players.

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Advice, Tips and Questions Regarding the Oud / Controlling the sympathetic resonance

« on: April 14, 2015, 04:25:52 AM »

Is it possible to control the sympathetic resonance of an oud while playing? I'm not talking about muting the strings, but about the air resonance, is there a way to control this while playing the oud?

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Advice, Tips and Questions Regarding the Oud / Can humidity cause the soundboard to 'sink'?

« on: April 14, 2015, 04:23:22 AM »

Has anyone ever had this problem? Can the soundboard of an oud simply sink inside the case?? A friend of mine has this problem, and he is desperate! Is it fixable?

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Advice, Tips and Questions Regarding the Oud / How to choose strings for your oud?

« on: April 14, 2015, 04:21:51 AM »

How do you know which strings to get for your oud? How do you know which are of good quality and are resistant / durable enough?

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Oud Lovers / Comparison between Arabic & Turkish oud?

« on: April 14, 2015, 04:20:08 AM »

Do you know what the main differences are between an Arabic and a Turkish oud? Besides the tuning, which I understand is done differently on these 2 type of ouds.

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Oud Lovers / How come there are so few women oud players?

« on: April 14, 2015, 04:17:45 AM »

Everywhere I look, all I see is famous men oud players, too few women players out there. How come? Does anyone know of any women players that are famous?

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Doumbek Advice, Tips Questions & Lessons / Does an inner ceramic coating improve the sound?

« on: April 04, 2015, 02:32:41 AM »

Would an inner ceramic coating improve the sound of a darbuka? Or is that just a myth, and a simple painting job is enough to add a good resonance to the drum?

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Doumbek Advice, Tips Questions & Lessons / Tips on reheading a ceramic doumbek?

« on: April 04, 2015, 02:29:15 AM »

I have a friend (well, more of an acquaintance) who is absolutely sure that in order to rehead his ceramic doumbek, you'd have to glue the head.
I disagree, but he insists he read it in a book, so he's probably gonna go ahead and do that....
Is this really the way to rehead a doumbek? I thought you're supposed to use the rope system.

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Oud Lovers / Re: Should you tell a story through your taqsim ?

« on: April 04, 2015, 02:19:09 AM »

Well, when you play, your taqsim can last 2 minutes or 1 hour!
There's this book, called "The Passport to a World of Music" or something similar, I read it once and I do remember the author saying that taqsims are actually a melodic way to tell a story, so you're not wrong! It's just not a rule, it's something you choose to do if you feel like it.

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Advice, Tips and Questions Regarding the Oud / Re: How to switch from Ajam to Saba and back?

« on: April 04, 2015, 02:15:28 AM »

Molly is correct. Just try playing them and experience with 'the switch', and using the Zanjaran in the middle is  much better idea than a direct switch.

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Doumbek Advice, Tips Questions & Lessons / Re: Copper or aluminium darbuka?

« on: April 04, 2015, 02:04:11 AM »

@Lillyan: thanks so much for the examples I was actually curious about how each sounds.
However, if I can add something, copper is actually better than aluminium, if you want to compare the quality of the material. It also weighs less, but that's not that important I guess.

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Advice, Tips and Questions Regarding the Oud / Re: Want to learn how to play the oud

« on: April 04, 2015, 02:01:56 AM »

Hey Danny If you are an absolute beginner, just take a look here:
http://www.arabinstruments.com/oud/oud-lessons/free-lessons

These are some short videos you can watch one by one and "take notes", they should help

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Introduce Yourself / New here!

« on: March 19, 2015, 08:09:29 AM »

Hey everyone! I'm new here and my name is Ayla. There, I have introduced myself Now it's your turn! (just kidding)

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Oud Videos & Sound / Which oud sound do you like best?

« on: March 12, 2015, 04:41:28 AM »

I was browsing though this website and stumbled upon the oud sound videos. I haven't listened to all of them yet, I was looking for the sound of the electric oud (I'm really curious about that one!) and, so far, I like this one best:



But, again, I still have a few more oud videos to browse through

What's everyone's favorite, by the way?

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Doumbek, Darbuka Lovers / Re: Darbuka - New Generation - Model 2015

« on: March 12, 2015, 04:35:08 AM »

Doesn't look bad at all!
Is it really hand made? Honestly, it's hard to believe, I mean, look at it! It's such a beauty
I can't even make a paper hat using my own hands LOL!