carpenter
Oud Junkie
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Registered: 8-30-2005
Location: Eugene OR
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My Oud/Celtic Fusion theory vindicated!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BIQIOaE3y_Y&feature=related
Woo-hoo! A good tune, nicely played - now on my "to-do" list - with "Whiskey Before Breakfast," a fine old fiddle tune, in there towards the end. Who
knew?
I'm ready for more instances of "reel music" on the oud, if you know of any.
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OudandTabla
Oud Maniac
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Let's take our Ouds to the Irish Jam at Sam Bond's one of these days and hammer out some jigs and reels! I could show you the Friar's Breeches or the
Butterfly...
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DaveH
Oud Junkie
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Interesting. I've always thought the sound would work well for Irish music. I started messing with a song that Kila do called "Bully's Acre". If my
technique was better I think it would work quite well. As it is, it's still good practice for triplets and regularity.
https://ishare.sphorium.com/fb/link.aspx?id=27ecdb9a-ea59-49c7-a827-...
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Branko
Oud Junkie
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Did Celts migrate from Anatolia to Europe?!
Ich bin ein Balkaner!
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carpenter
Oud Junkie
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Um, yeah - I read that on the Web, so it must be true. (Considering all music's ultimately Irish, via Norway ... maquams to Mozart to Metallica, it's
all corruption of the True Vine stuff.) It just throws gasoline on my raging Unified Field Theory fire.
But seriously, I like the O'Carolan harp tunes on the oud. Princess Royal, O'Carolan's Quarrel With the Landlady, Young Terence McDonough,
they're all fine slow-ish tunes. I drop them down a few keys or so, then they lay under the fingers on the fingerboard nicely, and I don't have to
play on the top. Yeek!
Makes guitarists/accompanists nuts, but there we are; they've got a head start as it is.
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DaveH
Oud Junkie
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Registered: 12-23-2005
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You all probably know this but the european and West-Asian place and people names featuring gal-/gaul- are generally related and date from when the
Celts were spread across most of the area. Galatia (turkey), Galicia (Ukraine), Galicia (Spain) Gaul (France) Galloway (Scotland) Galway (Ireland) are
all derived from a Celtic tribal name designating strength. OK, it may be a bit much to be reading in. But I do think the sound goes well with that
type of music. Is anyone else aware of the oud being used in celtic music (in the same way the Buzouki was recently incorparated into Irish music as a
standard instrument)?
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carpenter
Oud Junkie
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I hear oud in Loreena McKennit's Book of Secrets, and, If I remember, Mask and Mirror. PBS here ran a special of her playing the
Alhambra; nice Celtic/Moorish Spain blend.
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