Edward Powell - 4-26-2009 at 08:26 AM
Can anyone recommend any good Utube clips?
What about the scene there? ...what is going on? anything?
I am seriously thinking about going there on my next trip.....
Thanks!
Peyman - 4-26-2009 at 11:22 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1YVclM9BwQ
Check the same user for more videos.
Edward Powell - 4-26-2009 at 12:43 PM
yes, thanks so much! However he lives in Vancouver..... I will be in Vancouver for 3 months this coming summer, so I guess I don't need to go to
Tehran
....I mean, honestly, are there any Iranians actually playing Barbat
IN IRAN?? ...there seems almost nothing on youtube? ....lots of TAR! but oud????
I am starting to feel that probably the next best place to go for "oud transfusions" is probably Beirut. Maybe it is a sin to call yourself an oud
player without having set foot in the Levent? 
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katakofka - 4-26-2009 at 12:49 PM
Hi Ed
http://www.iranianoud.com/english/home.html
might be a good source
LB and syria can be done in 3 month otherwise
katakofka - 4-26-2009 at 12:52 PM
if you decide to go to LB tell me. I'll put you in contact with Professor Keserwani who teaches music at the Notre Dame University
Edward Powell - 4-26-2009 at 12:58 PM
I am really starting to feel tempted to go to Beirut.... have had offers to meet MANY great musicians already - the place seems crawling with oud
masters!
...but I am wondering if at this point getting a "cultural injection" from a slightly different spice zone might in fact help me more in the long run.
Has anyone out there visited Iran on a musical mission - and lived to tell about it? )
David Parfitt - 4-26-2009 at 01:14 PM
Edward,
I think access to YouTube was blocked in Iran at one stage, but not sure what the situation is now?
Dr Oud might be able to help you out with some oud contacts there.
All the best
David
Edward Powell - 4-26-2009 at 01:19 PM
great site!
click on the video on this page.... this is an amazing oud - WITH A SKIN FACE! has anyone ever seen such a thing???
http://www.iranianoud.com/english/home.html
oud player - third generation
Majid Nazempour - 1973