fhalaw
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Abu Dhabi /Dubai
Hello,
I will be heading to the Emirates this winter vacation and wanted to know if anyone had any knowledge of:
1- Any events/workshops or oud or arabic music related stuff happening 22nd december - 09 january.
2- Are there an shops where I could find a decent collection of music books. (history, notations, etc..) not just beginer oud methods
3- Anyone want to jam?  Always fun meeting players, picking up techniques and
checking the ouds.
Thanks,
Fadi
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FLIPAX
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Hi fhalaw,
I Livein Dubai, There is a few music shops that sell good music books
Music Chamber - Crownplaza Mall 1st Floor Shiekh Zayed Road near Trade Center
Music Room - Jumeira Beach Plaza
Sing and Swing Music -1st floor Ibn Batutta mall China Court - Shiekh Zayed Road
When its oud, then its better to check Sharjah emirates near dubai. there is no good ouds in dubai
Beware Im telling you
In sharjah emirates you will find also the shop of Maurice shehata there AL ASSEL SHOP
and some good OUds made also by Salmeen kuwait.
Abu dhabi is kick ass, You can find bait al oud school from naseer shamma......
If You want to jam and know some oudist. Good for getting some OUD Tricks...
Cheers hope u have a good vacation.
Cheers
PHILIP
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fhalaw
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hey thanks for turning my attention to the Beit el oud,
I will actually be 90% of my time in AD visiting family. I will check out the beit el oud and contact them to see if they have any workshops or give
ad-hoc lessons. They probably should some kind of library towards them.
I used to love going to the cultural foundation, when I was a kid.
later!
If anyone is in AD and has more info on the activities of this Biet el Oud let me know.
Thanks,
Fadi
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BBD
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AD is good place and the best Place in Dubai for sure is Music Chamber in Crown Plaza
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BBD
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Quote: Originally posted by FLIPAX  | Hi fhalaw,
I Livein Dubai, There is a few music shops that sell good music books
Music Chamber - Crownplaza Mall 1st Floor Shiekh Zayed Road near Trade Center
Music Room - Jumeira Beach Plaza
Sing and Swing Music -1st floor Ibn Batutta mall China Court - Shiekh Zayed Road
When its oud, then its better to check Sharjah emirates near dubai. there is no good ouds in dubai
Beware Im telling you
In sharjah emirates you will find also the shop of Maurice shehata there AL ASSEL SHOP
and some good OUds made also by Salmeen kuwait.
Abu dhabi is kick ass, You can find bait al oud school from naseer shamma......
If You want to jam and know some oudist. Good for getting some OUD Tricks...
Cheers hope u have a good vacation.
Cheers
PHILIP |
I will differ with you on the SHJ oud opinion ,, the best shop they have or had on Al Wahda Street one belonged to Salmeen Ouds that was sold to
people that dont know much about Ouds and the other Shop Bait Al Moseeka WAS awsome until they had problems with their Oud Manifacturers and moved
operations from Bahrain and now their quality in wood and building skills have gone down so much it was sad to see..
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FLIPAX
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Sorry about that BBD,
Yes I know about the salmeen issue. What I'm saying is that there is one shop there that sell the real salmeen ouds. and there is one oud there I like
which sound good but sadly the rest are copy cats. and they are over price and RIP-OFF.
My kick is just Try Mr Maurice Shop Al ASSEL Shop. Just tell the cab driver to drop you at kuwait mosque and the shop is located near the fly-over
bridge.
Salamat
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fhalaw
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Again,
Not really interested in buying a oud. I have a Nazih Ghadban and would not consider anything else..
My question was about books/workshops etc...
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BBD
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Books and Workshops your in the wrong country if you want those,, I was living
in Dubai now I moved to the US and A hehe
I had so much problems finding music books in the past went to many libraries book stores Music shops I couldnt find what I needed were specific books
for oud ,, Yes you can find a lot of collection of music books in Music Chamber Dubai honest best bet there but as in Workshops I would not bother
looking for them I knew of one that was between Dubai and Sharjah advertising as the Nephews of Mohammed Fadel it closed down. Bahrain, Kuwait, and
Iraq are the only countries in that region who realy build quality ouds and workmanship Dubai is sorry to say overpriced.
fhalaw I heard there are some people in Canada who build high quality Ouds and send them to the middle east do you have any information ?
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Hi BBD,
you are talking of the Al-TAYYAR brothers. They live in Ottawa Canada and they make in my opinion the most refined ouds today. please look at this
post http://www.mikeouds.com/messageboard/viewthread.php?tid=2686
You can contact me by email or by u2u if you are interested in one of their ouds.
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