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What is the weight of your oud ?

Microber - 5-13-2007 at 05:28 AM

Maybe a strange question...
I just bought a new digital balance for the kitchen and I weigh every object around me... then my oud. :D

Mine is 875 gr or 2.34 lb (pound).

And yours ?

oudipoet - 5-13-2007 at 12:18 PM

mine is around 1.3 pounds which i belive comes to 600 grams

Jack_Campin - 5-13-2007 at 08:31 PM

Microber's balance must have dropped through a hole in space-time from an alternate universe - there are 454 grams in a pound.

billkilpatrick - 5-14-2007 at 12:46 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jack_Campin
Microber's balance must have dropped through a hole in space-time from an alternate universe - there are 454 grams in a pound.


840 gms for my syrian cheapy and 946 gms for my egyptian.

i wonder if there's an ideal "bench-mark" weight for each of the oud making traditions ...?

of pictish descent and non-irascible - bill

Microber - 5-14-2007 at 07:10 AM

Jack,
I went on an online web converter. I think that indeed i went to the strange world of the people who use pounds and onces. I should have stay 'at home' with my 'grammes'.

The converter of Oudipoet is also strange, isn't it ?

I forget to mention that my oud is a Turkish oud from çankaya.

Robert