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New oud owner

Aymara - 11-8-2009 at 05:42 AM

Hi everybody,

I finally got my first oud.

Yesterday I made the trip to Holland to visit Sabbassi and I fell in love with the rosewood oud, which he showed us HERE.

After a few hours of playing I now get used to the fretless fingerboard ... as a former guitarist I expected this too take more time. I also would have expected to need more time to get used to the arabic tuning C-F-A-d-g-c, but I'm slowly getting familiar with it.

But who cares ... I'm making progress faster than I expected and that makes fun :D I'm working on my first song for oud now ... I don't like playing other peoples songs ;)

Gotta check out my cheap PC microphone, if it's good enough, then I'll upload a short sound sample ... if you can stand that :D I'm an absolute beginner, far from perfect, I play European music and I bet you'll notice, that I'm a former guitarist.

Oh ... btw ... I have a question about the strings, which concerns me a bit ... please have a look HERE.

PS: I forgot to mention ... in real life it sounds much better as in the video Sabbassi posted :applause:

Luttgutt - 11-9-2009 at 06:47 AM

well who wouldn't fall in love with such oud :-)

CONGRATULATIONS!

Aymara - 11-9-2009 at 07:17 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Luttgutt  

CONGRATULATIONS!


Thank you very much. What I like most, is it's warm sound through the whole frequency range.

I think Sabbassi found a very nice combination of wood choice and soundhole concept on this oud, that made this possible.

PS: My PC microphon is too bad to make a realistic sounding recording, but Tony gave me a nice tip for building a cheap reasonable pickup at low costs. That might be a solution until I have money for a good one.

FLIPAX - 11-9-2009 at 04:43 PM

Hey Chris!

Mabrouk!!!!:applause:

Hope You Find Your :D Bliss :D.....While Playin this Oud....

Post Some New Pictures man! I would Love to see Some other Pic's aside from the sabbassi post.
Thanks

Philip:airguitar:

Christian1095 - 11-10-2009 at 09:33 AM

Congrats.....

jkndrkn - 11-11-2009 at 09:10 AM

Congratulations!

Aymara - 11-11-2009 at 10:07 AM

Thanks,

FernandRaynaud gave me a nice tip how to build a cheap pickup, that should yield better results as my horrible PC micro.

I hope I can give it a try the next days ... one piece is still missing, but should be easier to get as what I already bought.

Photos will follow.

What do they write at the end of TV series? ...

... to be continued :D

FlappitWitch - 11-11-2009 at 12:35 PM

Hi - I too have just acquired my first oud. I live in UK, but went to Soke for it. It is made in Izmir. I am trying to choose a chromatic tuner to use. Is the Korg CA-1 OK?

Ararat66 - 11-11-2009 at 12:42 PM

Hi there

Congratulations on your new ouds ... you will now need parallel lives as they are seriously addictive :)) BTW where are you in the UK?

Cheers

Leon

Aymara - 11-11-2009 at 01:30 PM

Hi!
Quote: Originally posted by FlappitWitch  
I am trying to choose a chromatic tuner to use. Is the Korg CA-1 OK?


There is a Korg model, that is often recommended, but I don't know, if it was the CA-1.

How would you like a good tuner for free? I use AP Tuner, which was recommended in the Advice Forum. Even with a cheap PC microphone it works great. And the best is you can save presets for individual tunings for the case, you want to use a different tuning sometimes.

As far as you don't need a tuner to carry with you, AP Tuner is perfect.
Quote: Originally posted by Ararat66  
... you will now need parallel lives as they are seriously addictive :))


Yes, but I need more lives ... I have too many hobbies ;)

Aymara - 11-22-2009 at 03:46 AM

Quote: Originally posted by FLIPAX  
Post Some New Pictures man!


Let me show you something completely different ... I shot an infrared photo (no, it has nothing to do with heat photography), which shows nicely the wood grain of the dark rosewood.

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FLIPAX - 11-22-2009 at 04:05 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Aymara  


which shows nicely the wood grain of the dark rosewood.



Nice Pics man! :applause: I Like The Wood Grains.....

Definetely an Eye Catcher!:bounce:

I Love How the oud Looks Like specially how the back is shaped and Looks like Big Half Watemelon!:D

Now I'm Hungry...

Put some More Chris. the more the merrier!

Flip:airguitar: