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ALAMI
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Old oud by Simbat Der Bedrossian
Chasing old ouds is sometimes a frustrating experience like when you sacrify your sunday and drive a 100km, then spend 2 hours searching the
approximative address given to you by the neighbour of someone who knows someone... where you are supposed to find "the rare unique jewel" to
discover a crap seventies oud decorated like a backgammon.
....and sometimes you just get lucky.
f I were a poker play I think this the week where I should play every night.
I got this oud covered with sticky dust and after a soft cleaning and some blowing it revealed its beauty.
Made by Sumbat Der Bedrossian in 1950. Another armenian master from Damascus
string length 61.5 cm
bowl : 51 X 37 x 21
The pegbox is unstable and has a crack and the mother of pearl strips on the fingerboard are a bit unglued, and it has a small crack on the bowl, the
rest and specially the face and the roses are perfect.
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ALAMI
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The rosette design is in line with the pure ottoman calligraphy tradition: the "Toghra"
on the lower part we can read:
Cheghl (made by) simbat der bedrossian
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ALAMI
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The back is decorated with bone or ivory.
the darker ribs are probably walnut, I couldn't identify the wood of the lighter ones.
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ALAMI
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the finger board
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ALAMI
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and finally the label which is just a handwritten piece of paper.
the name is spelled: Sm Bt (no vowels and in 2 parts) while on the rose it is spelled : smbat
The word "Year" is also misspelled on the label :
Sanat with long T insted of round T
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Ararat66
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wow Alami
what a talent you have for finding treasure!!!
Leon
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Jameel
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nice oud. nice rosettes.
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GeorgeK
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Very beautiful Oud, you're a lucky guy.
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hamed
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Nice finds ALami, Mabrouk on both ouds. I was wondering how many luthiers there are named Bedrossian, i know i've seen Karabed (or something
similar), do you know if they are realted, a family of luthiers maybe?
Hamed
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MatthewW
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Alami, what a beautiful find!  I love the fingerboard design. Seems like
ouds like this are more common to come across in your neck of the woods? regards, MW
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Adel Salameh
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Hello my friends , I am quite sure that garabed was the son of Sumbat Bedrosian......
Sumbat has produced great instuments ....and he is considered to be the second best oud maker in Syria after the nahat family.....
I have seen some brilliant ouds by Sumbat....his ouds among Istanbuli Leon are the best ouds made by Arab Armenian....If I may say so....
here you can see some of his out standing work....which can be compared to the legend Abdo Nahat....
His son Garabed did not carry out the outstanding craftsmanship of his father and produced commercial ouds which we can find very easily in
Syria....
this was the case with the great Egyptain Syrian master Jamil Georges and his son.
Best wishes,
Adel
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ALAMI
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Thanks to all for your comments and thanks to Adel for the infos on the Der Bedrosian family.
Many great ouds are still buried into closets in our "neck of the woods", what I do is trying to maximize the probability to make our roads cross, but
to discover 2 ouds from 2 Armenian masters in a row is pure luck.
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ALAMI
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another Sumbat Der Bedrossian
Just received from Adel Salameh this amazing picture of a Sumbat Der Bedrossian oud, he had a problem uploading the pic.
What an amazing oud ! the rosette looks like the legendary Abdo Nahat "maqams rosette", the pickguard and the neck are magnificent.
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That is one wicked rosette!
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ALAMI
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Restoration by Nazih
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ALAMI
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Part 2
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ALAMI
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the finished oud
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ALAMI
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The 2 masters: Sumbat and Nazih in the same picture
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Mabrouk!!!
nice find...this oud diserved better then being covered in dust.
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veyselmaster
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Hello Dear Alami
İts realy very nice antik oud and full original .
Use healty
Best wishes
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DanielH
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Wow! It's always inspiring to see a beautiful piece of craftsmanship lifted up from the ashes to sing again... Enjoy it in good health, Alami.
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Jonathan
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Absolutely beautiful. Congratulations!
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paulO
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Lovely restoration work, and one super cool and unique oud. Enjoy it in good health !
Regards..PaulO
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Samer
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Lovely oud, I really like it, I have seen number of Badrosian ouds ( I own 3 ) this is one of the nicest I have seen. Enjoy it.
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ALAMI
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Thank you guys for your kind wishes,
I am eager to get this oud but it is still in Nazih workshop in Ras Baalbeck (a 100 km from Beirut) and it is going to stay there for a week or more,
Nazih likes to keep the oud a while after restoration and play it from time to time to see if everything is OK, this oud has been un-stringed for
many years and other invisible problems may appear after re-stringing. I talked to him this evening and he told me that today a buzz appeared in the
sound, it was due to one of the small rosettes.
I am waiting for a sound file.
Another small but very nice detail that i forgot to mention is that Nazih was able to find and fit 3 old pegs similar to the 3 missing ones:
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