Mike - 1-30-2004 at 10:42 AM
Imagine losing your oud. Would you shed a tear? I know I would.
Read this article.
Mike
David Parfitt - 1-30-2004 at 11:19 AM
Hi Mike
I remember reading an interview with Ahmed Mukhtar about the time when he had to flee from Iraq. They made him hand over his oud at the border, even
though it was very dear to him.
I wonder where that oud is now? I also wonder what the situation is now regarding the oud in general in Iraq, and whether any of the Iraqi exile oud
players/makers plan to return?
Best wishes
David
Alan - 1-30-2004 at 11:48 AM
If the house was burning, after getting my family out I would grab the Nahat on the way out.
TruePharaoh21 - 1-30-2004 at 01:05 PM
Yah, I think I'd have a stroke. And my oud isn't valued at that much. This guy's violin was 3 mil! I mean c'mon buddy, tie it
around your neck or something.
TP21
spyros mesogeia - 1-31-2004 at 02:35 PM
I prefer to die.....
My ouds are my life....I can't live without them....
so you know what I feel.....
Regards
kevin - 1-31-2004 at 03:54 PM
Hi,
In my teens, I had bought a student violin (cheap cheap cheap), and left to go buy some music for it. Driving back home with my 'precious'
cargo of crappy violin and meager scales I decided to forgo stopping at a stop sign. Long story short, a truck broadsided me and flipped my car over.
(Some how my meat body didn't have a scratch... Not a broken bone or nothin). But I still got a ride in the ambulance, in my daze to the medic or
cop, I forget, I pleaded with them to 'go, please, please get the violin & music out of the trunk!'.... its like all I could think of at
the moment... as if surviving wasn't enough! go figure, kids these days!
nadir - 2-2-2004 at 03:59 AM
OMG it was in Maryland!!! that was where i used to live before i came to the middle east about three years ago!
if i lost my old oud, i wouldnt really care... but the new one that i got for eid... especially if someone stole my oud - i'd beat him to a
pulp!! 
nobody messes with my oud! 
nadir - 2-3-2004 at 12:34 PM
it is horrible for you to lose an oud, i know i would cry and shortly murder people... 
but, what if a bunch of african termites bit through your nahat?! OOOOOOOOO MAN! THAT WOULD SUCK!!!
(i wonder if termites would be able to do that though...)
spyros mesogeia - 2-3-2004 at 03:07 PM
THINK POSITIVE MY FRIEND
I think that I will insure my ouds....for a big valueeeeee
Regards