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Tunning the oud

cshrem - 6-29-2005 at 02:33 PM

Hi I had just bought a morrocon oud. My grandfather used to play and had a beautiful oud. I bought this one for him as a present. Hes older now and I dont know much about the oud my question is:
I dont know if it is tuned or not?

If it is not how do I tune it?

shlomi - 6-30-2005 at 05:46 AM

A- arabic tuning from bass to treble:c.f.a.d.g.c
B-turkish tuning from bass to treble:d.g.b.e.a.d
those are the 2 most common ways to tune there are also alternative ways to tune like the iraqi tuning which a perfect fourth above the arabic tuning. for a morocan oud u should use the standart arabic tuning:wavey:

Alan - 6-30-2005 at 02:10 PM

Look here at Davids oud site. There is a lot of great information from stringing, tuning and maqamat here.

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cshrem - 7-1-2005 at 04:29 AM

thank you guys, BTW the oud is an egyptian made oud, I think my grandfather plays the arabic way because he is from syria and my grandmother from egypt