Jameel - 1-29-2006 at 09:08 PM
Ok, we all know that Hamza El Din's mind-blowing Nahat was discovered in the guitar shop in Santa Monica. I was browsing around their site and found
an interesting instrument hanging on the wall in this image. Pan around, you will see it. I don't know when this was taken. It's too late to call, but
I know this discovery has got my blood flowing a bit. Can anyone shine some light on this?
http://www.mccabes.com/hallmid.mov
from this page:
http://www.mccabes.com/panpage.html
you can also see it in the second image.
Greg - 1-29-2006 at 09:54 PM
Hey Jameel,
That shams sure looks interesting, don't it?
Good luck.
Greg
ofadel - 1-31-2006 at 03:55 PM
i think that is the same turkish oud I played about 3 months ago. It may look good in the pic, but believe me it was nothing to write home about. It
was priced around $600 for it if I recall correctly. I wouldn't pay more then $100 for it. that is, if it is the same instrument. my 2 cents...
mavrothis - 2-1-2006 at 07:58 AM
Is it Turkish? It looks more like an Arabic design.
LeeVaris - 2-1-2006 at 08:35 AM
Last time I was in McCabes they had Turkish ouds only - they were the kind you can get online for $200 and they were selling them in the store for
$800. The people in the store didn't even want me to tune them because they didn't want to leave the instruments with the string tension at pitch for
too long (apparently they had a bad experience in the past with a bridge falling off when a customer banged on it a little too aggressively. That lets
you know a bit about the quality of these instruments.
That being said there is always the rare possibility that someone will bring in a high quality instrument to sell on consignment. The store is only
too happy to help someone sell an instrument, especially if they can sell them something else. Somebody's grandchild may find an old oud in the closet
and bring it in to McCabes because they remember seeing strange instruments there and, what do you know, it turns out to be a Nahat! Of course the
store personel don't know anything about ouds so they figure its worth maybe $150-200.00 US. It could happen. That's why its worth stopping in every
once in a while.