Jameel
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Ebay oud--1 hour left--restoration project
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=019&sspage...
cant get that link going
Item number: 290070295239
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Jonathan
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Anybody know anything about that luthier?
I am sure that the name is not "Gazboumian", as listed.
It is ---azloomian, but what is the first letter?
G?
I've never heard of the name Gazloomian.
Could it be Mazloomian? In the English part of the label, it almost looks like the first letter in the last name is the Armenian letter "men", which
would make it Mazloomian, although I don't know why he would mix Armenian and English letters. I can't make out the Armenian portion of it (the first
half of the label). Could that actually be a "G" (or "K", depending on the dialect)?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290070295239
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Jonathan
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Actually, looking at that first letter in the last name in the English section (fiddling with the contrast, squinting one eye, standing on one foot),
it looks like it could possibly be the English letter "M".
Mazloomian I have heard of. I don't know of any other Armenian name that ends in ----azloomian.
And, the Armenian section is just too blurry on my monitor to figure out that first letter. It could still be the Armenian letter "men", but the
writer turned that squiggly part on the top of the letter backwards--it happens in some typed fonts, but it seems sort of odd to see it written like
that.
Kevork Mazloomian. No 92? 92nd oud? Who knows.
Any thoughts appreciated.
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al-Halabi
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Jonathan, it's almost definitely Mazloumian, which is a known Armenian name. Interesting that the instrument was made in Paris. There is no date of
manufacture visible, but I would speculate that it's from the 1920s or so.
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Jonathan
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Thanks for the opinion. I think so, too. And there is no other Armenian name that I know of that ends with ---azloomian. Interesting oud. I like
the rosettes--a little crude, I guess, but a lot of charm with those kissing birds.
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