Hi everyone, My friend has a Turkish Oud, and I will soon have an Arabic Oud. We would like to play music together.
We are both novices at the Oud, and are curious what the best approach to tuning would be to allow us to play well together.
I'm aware of the differences between turkish and Arabic tunings and the many variations. But would like to know other peoples opinions on the
subject.
Would the most logical idea be to tune the turkish oud down to the Arabic oud? CFADGC or similar? as I would not want to tune my oud to the Turkish
tuning (it being Arabic and of longer length etc).
Does your friend play arabic music or mainly Turkish? Did he try the above tuning? Does he like it? And do you like it too?
PS: Which string length does his oud have, 58.5cm? And which string set does he use?
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... as I would not want to tune my oud to the Turkish tuning ...
... which would destroy a typical arabic oud. suz_i_dil - 11-12-2009 at 01:33 PM
Maybe you can try an arabic tuning in bass D G A D G C trebles , if he uses usually a turkish tuning in E A B E A D: it will keep the same intervals
between strings for him ( same tuning, just 1 tone higher ).
If he uses usually B (C#) F# (A) B E A D, the nearest for intervals would be an arabic tuning in C F A D G C, it would be just different in terms of
intervals for the 2 first bass, not so much a big issue. Moreover he may modulate the bass F to E and the C down to A ( but I guess for this last one
a better option would be to use a custom single bass string )
