Zulu
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Sukar 13 for sale!
Since I purchased my Fadi Matta I never play my Sukar 13. It is a great oud and quite unique because Sukar ouds usually have a spuce soundboard; this
soundboard is ceadar.
The tone is very Syrian, quite warm and longing. The action is adjustable so you can dial in your own personal preference. It also has a K&K Twin
Spot pickup installed. Comes with hard case.
The price is $700 firm + shipping. Check around and you will find this oud costs a lot more on line.
I only take PayPal.
Contact me PM or email zulu@zulutattoo.com
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Zulu
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SOLD
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Luttgutt
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Congratulation both buyer and seller!
This oud looks very nice and is definatly a very good price..
Play well :-)
The wood might be dead, but the oud is alive.
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luan
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Hi, sorry for the off topic, but I have a doubt:
How do you adjust action on that oud?
Thanks a lot!
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fernandraynaud
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Hi, Zulu,
Curious, was it a K&K Dual head? Where exactly did you mount the disks?
Luan, it's a standard feature of Sukars. You reach inside up to the headblock, and you find a butterfly nut. Tightening it (gently and gradually)
pulls the bottom of the neck inward towards the instrument, so the action is lowered. The range of adjustment is not as wide as on a Fadi Matta, and
with wood settling over the years can "run out of adjustment" so some filing of the mating surfaces can be needed to have full range down to 0 mm high
action, but still it's a simple and wonderful thing; it's invisible and doesn't negatively affect the structural integrity or the sound. The timbre
changes in interesting ways depending on the height of the action.
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luan
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But if the two parts doesn't make contact, you're not losing sound there?
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fernandraynaud
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No, the parts do make contact, its just that there is some slight flex. The diagram is not to scale. I can assure you it works very well.
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Zulu
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Pickup position
Hi Fernand,
Yes, I used K&K dual spot and placed them as shown in this link...but I used the internal pickup.
http://www.kksound.com/images/oud_position.jpg
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fernandraynaud
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So you attached them in these spots but under the soundboard? Good idea.
I'd like to caution people about attaching such pickups atop the soundboard. That's what I did to avoid drilling etc. As recommended by the company I
used their thin tape under the heads, and a weak "Scotch magic tape" over the leads to prevent the wires from moving while playing and passing sounds
to the pickups. I was prepared for a battle in removing the actual pickups, but was taken by surprise with the adhesion of the Scotch Tape strips. It
was a chore getting the glue residue off the wood. A small sliver of the soundboard, fortunately very shallow, was also very surprised to find itself
coming off with the tape. As current vernacular has it, "just sayin'".
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