SamirCanada - 9-4-2008 at 01:16 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOzz_X04_Ys&feature=related
the story of salmeen the oud maker...
narated by himself...
for arabic speakers only.
nice to listen but take a lot of it with a grain of salt.
Jassim - 9-4-2008 at 01:26 PM
this is not salmeen oregenal shop
its jawharat salmeen
salmeen shop close befor 7 month becose his owner has died essa salmeen
this shop for essa brother yosef salmeen ( Jawharat salmeen )
and the turkish oud maker left to turky in 2003 i think and come mahamad alhsamy from egypt
and when the shop close he went to his brother yosef salmeen and work in his work shop jawharat salmeen
its not the femos salmeen shop becose in kuwait there are two shops have the same name but not the same makers Salmeen shop and Jawharat salmeen shop
aytayfun - 9-5-2008 at 02:52 AM
Hello Jassim. Did you know the Turkish oud maker working for Jawharet Salmeen.
Jassim - 9-5-2008 at 02:53 AM
hi
i just know the turkish makers in salmeen work shop
usta ali nashader and usta burhan
Jassim - 9-5-2008 at 02:54 AM
but they left kuwait befor 6 years i think and didnt come back to kuwait
aytayfun - 9-5-2008 at 03:52 AM
Hi Jassem .
Thank you very much for urgent reply. I find Ali' website.
http://www.udmaker.com/
Oud.Proff - 9-5-2008 at 12:14 PM
Interesting video SamirCanada,
I kinda disagree though with one of the statments Yousif Salmeen made that the late Farid Atrash was the one who added the 6th string (pair) to the
oud, simply because Farid always played the 5 course oud, and I don't think I've ever seen him play a 6 course oud at all.
I love the old Salmeen ouds.........unique for their shallow bowl depth and skewed base, and superb sound quality.....(especially those of the late
Issa Salmeen, who passed away recently as Jassim pointed out)....really nice !
Hey by the way !! I hear my oud playing in the background of that video clip ! (Ya msafir wahdak and Ana Bintizarak) 
Regards,