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Mr. Shamma's tuning

peppeo77 - 2-9-2006 at 09:26 AM

Hello folks! I'm trying to transcribe and study "An eastern love story" from Naseer Shamma, and I was watching to a videoclip of this song. I noticed that the fingering he uses are pretty different from mine, I guess it depends on the tuning he uses. My ouds are tuned CFADgc. Does anybody know the tuning(s) Mr. Shamma uses?
Many thanks, Peppeo.

Ronny Andersson - 2-13-2006 at 02:23 AM

Standard tuning among Iraqi musicians are: F C D g c f for 6 course (Shamma). For 7, F C (A) D g c f b and for 8 C F A D g c f b. Bashir used C D g c f F.

peppeo77 - 2-13-2006 at 04:36 AM

thank you very much for your help Ronnie!
Peppeo.

dubai244 - 2-13-2006 at 07:16 AM

Hi guys,
i just windering if you guys explain to me what's A,B,C,F .....etc means? because what i know is ....DO , Ray, Mee , FA, Sool LA, C, Do... but i haven't learn ABCD stuff!
Thanks

peppeo77 - 2-13-2006 at 08:17 AM

Hi Dubai!
those letters are the international signs for notes and chords. The notes DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI are substituted with the letters (in order) C D E F G A B. That means that when you say CFADGC tuning you mean a DO FA LA RE SOL DO tuning? Right?
See you, Giuseppe.

Ronny Andersson - 2-13-2006 at 01:09 PM

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Originally posted by peppeo77
thank you very much for your help Ronnie!
Peppeo.


My pleasure Peppeo!

Time - 2-13-2006 at 08:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by peppeo77
Hi Dubai!
those letters are the international signs for notes and chords. The notes DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI are substituted with the letters (in order) C D E F G A B. That means that when you say CFADGC tuning you mean a DO FA LA RE SOL DO tuning? Right?
See you, Giuseppe.


I thought that these are only Americas while the DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI are international.

Greg - 2-13-2006 at 08:48 PM

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Originally posted by Time

I thought that these are only Americas while the DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI are international.


I think it would be fair to say that both systems are used, to some degree, in most countries. However, the naming of notes A to G (Boethian notation) goes back to Rome in the 5th century, whilst "Solfege" was not introduced until 500 years later.

Regards,

Greg