fadel - 11-21-2008 at 05:55 AM
hi
zaher kalefa oud
fadel - 11-21-2008 at 05:56 AM
hi
zaher kalefa oud
fadel - 11-21-2008 at 05:57 AM
hi
zaher kalefa oud
fadel - 11-21-2008 at 05:58 AM
hi
MatthewW - 11-21-2008 at 06:35 AM
salam fadel- very beautiful ouds, 
I love the way the woods are on the back of the bowl of the top oud. what woods are used? The inlay is also very tasteful on both.
Any of these one of your ouds? regards, MW
aytayfun - 11-21-2008 at 09:28 AM
What a killer walnut.
Play in health Fadel.
fadel - 11-21-2008 at 09:59 AM
hi MatthewW
thes ouds not for my
the walnut from syria
thank
paulO - 11-21-2008 at 10:48 AM
Ditto on the Walnut -- lovely psychadelic grain, and great workmanship on all the ouds too!
Thanks for the photos fadel !
Regards..Paul
dubai244 - 11-21-2008 at 12:16 PM
Hi Fadel,
Could you please provide more information about this maker? where he is from and contact number?
Thanks
francis - 11-21-2008 at 04:18 PM
Really beautiful ouds!
I like the walnut color ( and ribs adjustements ) on the bowl of the first one, the wood seems to be alive under the bright varnish. About the
strings, are they passing through the floating bridge? I have never see that before....Or may be the bridge is deeply incised so we can see the
strings "in" the bridge???
Give us more informations, please....
And sound clips if possible...
Thanks for giving these pictures.
Regards,
Francis
Melbourne - 11-22-2008 at 07:23 PM
I like this guy's work - I think his work is much needed to restore peoples' faith in good old "Shaam" craftsmanship - It's very evindent in the
nahatesque oud - but the bashir is very fine as well...
Fadel -
hi 
Hal 3andak ma3loumaat 3an Zaher Khalifa? email? telephone? Shukran.
fadel - 11-23-2008 at 02:12 AM
hi
zaher kalifa - from syria he is my frined
email -e-mailsyriaoud1@hotmail.com
fadel
ExtreamTarab - 12-15-2008 at 12:55 PM
Hey guys,
I found Zaher Khalifa's web site...
http://zaher-oud.com/
some really fine looking ouds there 
Ibrahim
Melbourne - 12-16-2008 at 01:23 AM
Hi Ibrahim.....
Thanks for sharing. Though I gotta say if there's anything working against this young and rather talented oud maker - its the english version of his
website!
DaveH - 12-16-2008 at 02:53 AM
It's just a translation problem. Maybe someone here could volunteer a helping hand?
shareen - 12-16-2008 at 06:53 PM
My guess is that his web program does an automatic translation into English and the programming is just BAD. I think if more of these yound oud
builders in the Middle east had good English sites like Nazih and Maurice Shehata, they would do a big business just from our forum!
Christian1095 - 12-17-2008 at 07:44 AM
Regardless, the ouds are beautiful... Wow....
Marina - 12-17-2008 at 12:38 PM
Gooooosh!
It si so beautiful!!!!
arsene - 8-10-2009 at 02:51 PM
This thread is quite old, but I must've missed it, otherwise I would've definitely jumped in to show off my Zaher Khalefa oud (which is making me
smile just a bit more every day!) Just looking at that flamed walnut back... and it sounds terrific too!
you'll find this one on page 3 on Zaher's website at "pro ouds" as well.
( excuse the lighting, it was very sunny!)
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