palestine48 - 11-21-2006 at 08:49 AM
Hey guys,
I saw an oud by nazih on his website it looks awsome but he explained it to be rather small. its 58.5 cm in string length and the the soundboard is
50 cm by 35 cm.
How does that compare to other ouds from various countries. is this close to the size of a turkish oud?
mavrothis - 11-21-2006 at 11:51 AM
Hi,
The string length is definitely like that of a Turkish style oud. Off hand I don't know about the other dimensions. 
mjamed - 11-21-2006 at 08:06 PM
to me, it makes playing much more simpler if the string length is 58.5cm istead of 60cm
but the issue of the bowl size is critical ! sometimes smaller ouds doesn't sound as nice as bigger ones !
Haluk - 11-21-2006 at 09:36 PM
Our Turkish style ouds with same string lenght,bowl lenght 50 cms.,width 36-37 cms. Karibyan type.
Regards all.
palestine48 - 11-21-2006 at 10:09 PM
are any of you guys or anyone out there tuning turkish ouds to arabic scales. I would like to hear it as i am searching for a fixed bridge oud. I
cuurently have a floating bashir bridge oud.
palestine48 - 11-21-2006 at 10:10 PM
P.S. thank you haluk for the information. I will be contacting you if i decide to buy a new oud.
Haluk - 11-21-2006 at 10:26 PM
Mr. Greg,moderator of the forum,still using my beginner model oud at his office as Arabic tune.
Please ask him.
SamirCanada - 11-21-2006 at 11:20 PM
I played one of haluk's ouds tuned to arabic and it was really nice. The sound was really mellow and soulfull. The guy who I tried his oud here is the
professor he came over to my house to hang out and he brought it along. he took some videos of me just playing around maybe he still has them. I'll
ask him so you can hear it.
jazzchiss - 11-22-2006 at 01:46 AM
My Ghabdan's oud is almost like my Turkish oud.
Can you see it at http://www.mikeouds.com/messageboard/viewthread.php?tid=3319#pid218...
For me, the dimensions are perfect.
oudplayer - 11-23-2006 at 07:41 AM
hey guys
I think turkish ouds or turkish style bowls are better in my opinoin bc i would say you have more control oven it , i have aturkish oud and i tune it
arabic and it sound awesome and has a great bass to it proably better then m y other ouds.
thx sammy