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Top: Arts: Music: Instruments: Stringed: Oud
This category includes sites pertaining to the playing, history, construction, and performers of the stringed instrument known as the oud.The oud is a Middle Eastern and North African fretless lute. Originally from the region of present-day Baghdad and Tehran, it once had four strings that were tuned in fourths. Modern-day ouds have between 10 and 13 strings and are played with a plectrum known as a risha, mezrab, or mezrap.
Some famous players of the oud have included:
Greek: Yorgo Barcanos
Armenian: Udi Hrant Kenouklian, Udi Marko Melkon
Turkish: Cinuçen Tanrikorur, Necati Çelik, Yurdal Tokcan, Udi Nevres Bey, Targan
Lebanese: Farid al-Atrach
Egyptian: Mohammed abd al-Wahab, Riyad as-Sinbati
Nubian: Hamza al-Din
Iraqi: Munir Bachir, Omar Bachir, Nasser Shamma
Scandanavian: Anouar Brahen
Armenian-American: Ara Dinkjan, John Bilezekian, Haig Manoukian
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In Persian music (and the Farsi language), the oud is also known as the barbat. The oud/barbat is commonly believed to be the ancestor of the European lute and guitar, and in the Arab world is definitively considered the ancestor of the tanbur, saz, and buzuq (bazouki).
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Contains sites for performers whose primary instrument is the oud (also spelled 'ud, al-oud, and al-ud). Many famous Arabic singers are also oud players, including Mohammed abd al-Wahab, Fareed al-Atrach, and Riyad as-Sinbati, and sites about them can also be found in
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