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Tags: 2015 More info: www.middleeastcamp.com WHAT IS THE OUD? The oud is a stringed musical instrument , a bridge called al Ghazala , a shorter neck (relative to the guitar) called al-raqeba , and is made from beard's feather (thus the name; usually an ostrich feather) , and keys for toning the strings called mafateeh. The bridge and the strings are knot in a similar fashion of the flamenco guitar. The soundbox of the Oud is usually parabolic in shape , at least one hole (Some have several) called Al-qamaria , but contemporarily plastic plucks are used. Oud is very famous in arabic countries due to the fact that it's easy to improvise on the oud unlike other instruments which either require accompaniment or , by that it doesn't have a straight back as the guitar. The pluck or the reeshe for the oud is usually an index-finger long , five to eight pairs of strings (except the "bassest" or lowest string which usually have one string) which are called Awtar (singular watar) , for another instrument the Qanoun can produce similar sound and is more pragmatic , its name is derived from the Arabic word for Wood which is probably the name of tree the Oud was made from. (Al-'ud became 'lute'.) The Oud is not fretted and was and still used by many arabic compose , mainly because of it's ability to produce wider range of sounds and with higher amplititudes. The oud's features are similar to the guitar: a sound box , still in use in many Arabic cultures. Related to the European lute , تعلم على العود مع اروع استاذ عود عفيف طعيسان Afif Taian will teach Arabic Oud at Mendocino Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp July 11-18
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