Jameel - 7-29-2005 at 05:40 AM
I was at a friend's recently and was leafing through a travel book on Turkey. This oud was pictured in a section on Turkish Music. (with no info about
this specific oud) I found this same oud on the web, but the pic is terrible. The pic in the book was clear enough that I could identify this oud as
an Abdo Nahat from the main rose calligraphy. It has many of the same design elements as Hamza El Din's Abdo Nahat, but also some elements that are
unique from most Nahats. Namely the end of the fingerboard. It has a unique shape. Question is, does anyone have better photos of this oud? It also
looks like it is in a museum or display case of some sort. Does anyone have more info about it?
al-Halabi - 7-29-2005 at 07:36 AM
According to a Turkish biography of Targan (by M. Hakan Cevher), he left four ouds, including a Manol and the Nahat in the picture you posted. He
donated the Nahat to the museum of Rumi, where it is on display. (The other three are exhibited in the Suleymaniye Library in Istanbul.) The book has
a black and white photo (on page 13) of Targan holding the Nahat in Rumi's mausoleum in Konya. The picture is rather grainy and less useful for
picking out details of the instrument than the picture you posted.
I have not seen other photos of this Nahat, except for the one on http://www.turkmusikisi.com, which is identical to the one you posted.
OudMaster - 8-3-2005 at 03:42 AM
Durring my visit last year to Istanbul, i went the museum to see the oud and try to take some close pictures, but unfortunatly the museum were closed
for restoration.
but i called my friend recently and told me that the museum is opened again so i might go a gain this year 
Ümit - 4-13-2006 at 08:31 PM
This abdo Nahat oud,I belive Targan Used Turkish tuning a lot of the time,would this oud be made for turkish tuning.
i belive some say the arabic oud cannot take the high tension and tone for the bracing system
DJdog - 4-13-2006 at 09:14 PM
For a couple of years I owned an Abdo Nahat. I initially tuned it to Turkish tuning, and it sounded too tight and non-resonant. Then I switched down
a whole step to Arab tuning and the whole instrument warmed up and came to life.