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The company sells these products through its own chain of retail outlets, and through other retailers. Virtuoso players:. Tommy Bahama is a clothing manufacturer that designs and makes Hawaiian shirts and other tropical wear. The oud's fretless fingerboard allows players to more freely play the untempered intervals that are common to many maqams. The oud plays an important role in most Arab and Turkish classical music because of its ability to beautifully express music in the Arabic system of maqam. Traditionally it is made from a bird's feather, but these days plastic picks are used more often.

Arabic players refer to it as a reeshe or risha, while Turkish players refer to it as a mizrap. The pick for the oud is usually about the length of an index-finger. Turkish-style ouds have a brighter sound than Arabic ouds. Arabic ouds are somewhat deeper, have a longer neck, and are usually tuned differently than their Turkish-style counterparts.

Arabic ouds are constructed somewhat differently than those found in Turkey, Greece, and Armenia. The soundbox of the oud is parabolic or pear shaped, that is, it doesn't have a straight back like the guitar. knotted at the bridge. The bridge and the strings are attached to the instrument in a similar fashion to the flamenco or classical guitar, i.e.

The oud's features are similar to the guitar: a sound box (on acoustic versions, but there are also solid body electric versions), five to eight courses (with an additional lower string which is usually just a single string) which are called awtar (singular watar), a shorter neck (relative to the guitar) called al-raqeba, at least one hole (some have several) called al-qamaria, a bridge called al-ghazala, and keys for tuning the strings called mafateeh. The oud was introduced into Europe by Ziryab, where it evolved into the lute. Ancient texts, however, state that the oud was invented by the Mesopotamians between 200 and 300 AD [1]. The first oud was inspired by the shape of his son's bleached skeleton.

The legend tells that the grieving Lamak hung the body of his dead son from a tree. According to legend, the oud was invented by Lamak, the sixth grandson of Adam. (The Arabic name, with the definite article, is the source of the word 'lute'.). Regarded as a precursor to the European lute, its name is derived from the Arabic word العود al-‘ūd 'the wood', which is probably the name of tree from which the oud was made.

The oud, 'oud, or 'ud (Arabic: عود) is a small, pear-shaped, stringed musical instrument, still in use in many Arab musical traditions. Mohammad Reza Ebrahimi (Iran). Arsalan Kamkar (Iran). Ahmed El bidaoui (Morocco).

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Samir Joubran (Egypt). Adnan Joubran. Richard Hagopian (Armenia). Driss El Maloumi (Morocco).

Hamza El Din (Egypt). Yair Dalal (Israel/Iraq). Anouar Brahem (Tunis). John Bilezikjian (United States, of Armenian descent).

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