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Turkish travel oud

Lysander - 1-23-2014 at 04:08 AM

Hello. I know that some people make travel ouds here but they are mostly Arabic, I think. When I go away later this year I will mostly likely have to take a travel oud since I do not want to leave it two weeks without playing. Or I can take my own oud with a hard case but my preference is for a travel oud.

Does anyone here make Turkish travel ouds and can you give a roundabout figure? It would have to be relatively inexpensive though if it were custom. Thanks.

Marcus - 1-23-2014 at 05:04 AM

Hi Lysander,

there was a post about a silentTtravel oud in the forum from sylud

Dont know about the scale, but it looks strong enough to be tuned turkish.

Cheers

Marcus

sylvainbd - 2-5-2014 at 10:47 AM

Hi Lysander

Indeed i designed an oud for travel called "Sylent-oud".

I make it with a good french guitar maker and now you can buy one for 1590 euros. This is a hand made instrument very handy for travel, very compact.

String lenght is 585 mm like a turkish oud. No problem to play with turkish tuning. Neck is consolidated with ebony rod.

You will find details and videos on http://sylentoud.canalblog.com/

Don't hesitate to ask question.