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orientalinstruments.com
Dear Friends,
Finally is sofar, and site is online. I'm curious what you think of it. Any comment is welcome.
THX
http://www.orientalinstruments.com
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Mortys
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orientalinstruments.com
Dear friends,
Finally is sofar, and the site in online. I'm curious what you think of it. Any comment is welcome.
THX
http://www.orientalinstruments.com
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Sazi
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Very nice looking site you have there!
Just one thing I noticed, being interested in the Afghani plucked Rabab, you have a picture of a nice one there but the commentary is all about the
bowed spike fiddle type rebab. (of which there are no pictures).
Otherwise, great job, well done!
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Mortys
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Thanx friend.
That is the pic of mohammadi bro made Rabab, i got no other. sorry
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Sazi
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Perhaps you could get some information from the Mohammadi brothers about their Rabab to go with the picture?
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Mortys
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I'll do that certainly.
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Sazi
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Thank you, 
That really is a very professional looking site, you must do that for a living? It's wonderful that you are helping bring such talent to the world.
Best wishes, S
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Aymara
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Yes, it is. I especially found that guitar article about tone wood selection very interesting
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Mortys
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I got already my own business in dutch cheese and organic products.
check it out. Music is my love
http://www.mortys.nl
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Hi Mortys
mine rubabs here with some detailed photo:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPictu...
and the last arrived, an afghan tambur I just finished to restore:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPictu...
Alessandro
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Mortys
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Looks great. who is the builder?
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if you mean the tambur, I have no idea.
I bought it some week ago on ebay, there was no bridge, some pegs were missing, some were broken, some cracks, the nylon-frets were all in wrong
position and so on..
I made new pegs, bridge, I had to change also the position of the first hole in the sympatethic strings because the original was exactly in the middle
were should be the first fret, so I decided to make a new one some cm under and cover the old hole with the usual "inlay-collar" made of mother of
pearl. After this I added inlay on pegs and the star on the top of neck.
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Aymara
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Mortys,
a tip: In the shop the loading of the images takes ages. You should create small thumbnail images instead of resizing original biiig photos to
thumbnail size 
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Maşaallah! Beautiful instruments - good recordings and photographs - a very good start for the website. I will start saving up for one of those
gorgeous barbat-s (but it may take a while)! Best of luck with this endeavor, health to your hands!
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Sazi
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I have to disagree with you there Chris...
There are already the thumbnails, so you don't have to click on them unless you are really interested, and if you are really interested it is good to
be able to see such detailed images in order to better assess the quality of the timbers and workmanship on the instruments.
Too many websites have poor quality images that are both frustrating and useless if you wish to consider purchasing on-line.
I think that is one of the things that set's this site a notch or two above many other musical instrument sites, and would be more confident to
purchase from these makers as a direct result of that.
Consequently I believe they do not take too long to load even on my old single-core museum-piece, as I would rather spend a few moments waiting than
considerably longer regretting a purchase.
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Aymara
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That are no real thumbnails, but the original huge photos resized to thumbs by the HTML code. If it would be real thumbnails, they would load much
faster.
BTW ... it are only this shop thumbnails ... the main instrument section e.g. loads fast.
| Quote: | | so you don't have to click on them unless you are really interested, ... |
Shure ... I'm not a PC novice
| Quote: | | and if you are really interested it is good to be able to see such detailed images |
Yes, but the thumbnails have to be resized (not the big photos they represent), the preview images are too big.
| Quote: | | They do not take too long to load even on my old single-core museum-piece. |
That's not a matter of processor power, but bandwidth. I have DSL 2000 and the shop instrument pages load horribly slow. All others are fast.
To make shure I'm not misunderstood:
The huge photos are fine, but the small preview images have to be images for itself in a small size. It's a design fault to just use the big photos
and resize them by the HTML code, because the result is a huge performance loss. For good performance, you need two versions of each photo, the
original and a much smaller preview image. The later has to be generated by a photo editing software like Photoshop and NOT by the HTML code.
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Sazi
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You are right of course.
But I have the same DSL2, (which in reality here, runs a LOT slower than that!) yet I have no problem with loading times.
G'day from Australia.
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Aymara
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I tested the shop pages with Mozilla 3.0 and Internet Explorer 7 and with both browsers (only) the shop pages are very slow.
| Quote: | | G'day from Australia. |
Good night from Europe
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Mortys
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Thank you very much for your compliment, gives me power to move on.
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Mortys
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Thanx friends,
I'm gonna resize the thumbnails so the upload gonna be fast.
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I tested the shop pages with Mozilla 3.0 and Internet Explorer 7 and with both browsers (only) the shop pages are very slow.
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Try Google Chrome, it's what I use, and seems to be faster and very stable.
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Aymara
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No, thanks. For security reasons, I will never use a Google product. Do a bit of research and you'll no longer use it
Believe me, the described problem above is a bandwidth problem, not a matter of browser choice.
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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The Arafati oud in particular is awesome in sound quality. I would buy it in a heartbeat if I didn't already own 4 ouds I am happy with.
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Beautiful instruments!
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The mohammadi oud sounds amazing, even though i am not a big fan of the transparent pick guard but that's a minor detail. However the sounds is
amazing arabic sound
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Michael-GOD BLESS EGYPT
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