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DerBedrossian oud

DJdog - 6-17-2006 at 04:21 PM

Check out the Sumbat derBedrossian oud listed on Ebay.

oudipoet - 6-17-2006 at 05:41 PM

u forgot to post the link brother and i ve done a search on ebay but could not find the oud

Jonathan - 6-17-2006 at 06:57 PM

Here's the link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/OUD-ANTIQUE-1953-SEMPAT-PROFESSIONAL-SAZ-LUTE-G...

To my novice eye, it looks like the face has been sanded down, and I am guessing aggressively. You can see the darkeness around the mizraplek where it looks like they did not sand. Also, the entire area around the bridge appears darker, because it is hard to get right up to that area to sand (not that you should sand at all, of course). And I think they pretty much wiped out that diamond shaped ornament at 6 oclock below the central rosette.

When a face is only about 2mm thick, people don't realize how much damage they do. The purfling is only about 1 mm thick. I have one old oud where the face is tissue paper thin in one spot because somebody sanded it--there actually are a couple of very small holes as well. I hang onto it for historical reasons, but how I wish it wasn't sanded.

Are the roses in the small eyuns original? The material does not match the central rosette and the workmanship looks, well, sort of crude on those two small rosettes.

Jonathan - 6-24-2006 at 03:18 PM

If any of you guys won this one, I would really like to add some decent pictures of it to my website.
Thanks

Andy - 6-25-2006 at 07:31 AM

Jonathan, to add to this it would be nice to know how it sounds and how playable it is especially since it was bought sight unseen, unheard and not tried. Also would be nice to know if it is the real thing. It went for $899 plus shipping.

Jonathan - 7-1-2006 at 07:12 AM

I don't know the winner, Andy. I know who he is (thanks), but I don't know him. If I get any details, I will pass them on.

Amos - 7-2-2006 at 05:14 PM

hi guys,
it was my teacher al bardezbanian who got the DerBedrossian...i plan to see him perhaps in the next week and i will check out the oud and get some photos for you to check out...i am also curious to see how it sounds.
take care,
amos