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Belhaiba Khaled oud maker for Cinco siglos, medieval music

zalzal - 1-17-2006 at 01:07 PM

Just found the web of medieval music group Cinco siglos.
They show photos for many of their ancient instruments. Ouds are made by Belhaiba Khaled.
English and spanish

http://www.cincosiglos.org/

zalzal - 1-17-2006 at 01:39 PM

Another web, mudejar music

http://www.musicamudejar.com/eng/principal_eng.html

al-Halabi - 1-17-2006 at 04:45 PM

Thanks for posting this. Khaled Belhaiba has made nice ouds for Said Chraibi, which he plays on his albums. I didn't know he also tried his hand at reproductions of medieval instruments. I visited his workshop in Casablanca - it was such a messy and decrepit place you couldn't imagine beautiful instruments coming out of it. The ouds I tried out in his shop were decent and reasonably priced, and certainly superior to most of the locally made ouds I saw in Morocco.

Django - 1-17-2006 at 05:15 PM

Does anyone know how to contact Belhaiba Khaled?
I would love to have a laud Morisco to play the "Cantigas de Santa Maria".