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NEW COLLECTION OF FARUK TÜRÜNZ PROFESSIONAL OUDS

farukturunz - 2-17-2011 at 01:59 AM

To the attention of those who are interested in purchasing a professional oud through a fine sellection.


You can see the new collection on my website:

http://www.oudmaster.com/product.aspx?lang=2&id=4


Enjoy :)

ultragroove - 2-17-2011 at 03:17 AM

:bowdown:

wow - some awesome ouds. such beauties!
i can't wait to own one of these masterpieces someday (depends on my playing skills and progression of my playing. a turunz oud will be my reward ;) ).

why is the soundboard of the double soundboard ouds so much darker then that of the single ones?
thanks for answer.

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farukturunz - 2-17-2011 at 03:44 AM

Quote: Originally posted by ultragroove  
:bowdown:


why is the soundboard of the double soundboard ouds so much darker then that of the single ones?
thanks for answer.

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Hi ultragroove! Many thanks for your praising words. I am making the Double Soundboards mostly out of Canadian Cedar and applying French Polish on them. French Polish turns the color darker which is already quite dark when it is unfinished.

Kind regards...

nizarrohana - 2-17-2011 at 11:12 AM

Beautiful Ouds Master Faruk! :wavey:

farukturunz - 2-17-2011 at 11:55 AM

Thank you my friend Nizar :wavey:

farukturunz - 2-19-2011 at 09:02 AM

You can listen to the sound of my Arabian sound here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoCImdZKjVAk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5l56W8zD0m


It is the outcome of recent Brace Frequencies Design.

farukturunz - 2-20-2011 at 04:30 AM

Please U2U me if you are interested in buying an oud through the collection.

abusin - 2-21-2011 at 03:43 AM


Salam Master Turunz,
these are a fantastic instruments with great rich Arabic tone :applause:
I really enjoyed listening to them played by Ghassan and Dina in many different recordings and the sound is just amazing :xtreme:

farukturunz - 2-21-2011 at 09:25 AM

Salam Awad!

Thank you for your evaluation and comment.

Regards

oudistcamp - 2-24-2011 at 09:54 AM

I have an Arabic oud created by Faruk Turunz.
It is art of understated elegance.

As I compare the sound character of the Turunz oud to the other ouds I have, I notice the distinct focused quality of the tones - very clean, pure and grounded, while still resonant and projected.
This characteristic may be preferred by some, in contrast to ouds that display a grittier, more echoey/airy quality.

Thank you, Faruk, for the research and technology you have invested into the art of oudmaking.
It is a pleasure to be in the company of your oud.

farukturunz - 2-25-2011 at 01:50 AM

Thank you oudistcamp. I especially concentrated on so called "Arabic, or Arabian" sound for almost five years and found out that there is no any standard "Arabic" sound. Despite one of the aspects of reality seems to me as related to rather "sociological" and "psychological" factors; and a qualification for a typical sound is not enough for designating a generalization; I tried to approach the issue in an experimental attitude. I had my ouds -of which I designed the soundboards for especially Arabian sound- played by some very famous Arab artists like Khalid Mohammed Ali, Sakher Hattar, Naseer Shamma, Omar Bashir, Mohammed Abuzekri, Ghassan Al-yousif, Dina Abdelhamid and many others.
I never received any negative evaluation from these artits as " it is not Arabian sound!"

suz_i_dil - 3-1-2011 at 11:59 AM

First I join all those congratulations about your ouds, and I'm going to miss words to say how much I love your sounding results.
I'm only surprised to see in your collection "good for turkish and arabic tuning". Of course I know we can anyway tune an oud to both tuning, but if I tune my arabic oud to turkish...Well, to my ears, it still sound "arabic", I don't get this characteristic turkish sound.
May you precise this point?

Regards

farukturunz - 3-1-2011 at 12:59 PM

Quote: Originally posted by suz_i_dil  
"good for turkish and arabic tuning".
May you precise this point?

Regards



Thank you suz_i_dil for pointing out this. I am designing some ouds' soundboards to be resonant for a wider range of frequency spectrum; so they become "good for turkish and arabic tuning"

Of course to make the oud produce characteristic arabic sound I design it in an intetionally particular way. Generally I design those particularly categorized turkish or arabian soundboards using two different particular methods for specially ordered ouds.

Regards

farukturunz - 12-13-2012 at 07:08 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Lute  
Is it possible for you to consider a happy medium?

Regards,

Lute


Dear Lute,

Sorry for this highly overdue reply!

Maybe you have noticed my "Reduced Price Point Lİne Ouds" just for 1K

You can see photos of this model on my website:

http://www.oudmaster.com/quality/index.htm

This was one of the 3rd batch of the series. We have started producing the 4rth batch RPP Ouds. I will upload a photo of them tomorrow.

Friendly regards :)

suz_i_dil - 12-13-2012 at 11:33 AM

For a " 5 cents " contribution, as a player, I will just ad that those quality ouds are great sounding instruments.
This is what I call an outstanding quality, moreover in this range of price.
Thank you Mr Faruk !

farukturunz - 12-14-2012 at 04:06 AM

Quote: Originally posted by suz_i_dil  
For a " 5 cents " contribution, as a player, I will just ad that those quality ouds are great sounding instruments.
This is what I call an outstanding quality, moreover in this range of price.
Thank you Mr Faruk !


Thank you suz_i_dil for your positive comment.

You can see our 4th batch Quality Ouds' (RPPL ouds) photos

here: http://www.oudmaster.com/quality/index.htm

Best regards :)