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old turkish tuning
The A=440 standard is actually quite recent. It has slowly crept up over the last two centuries, in ...
2-10-2013 at 04:22 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Need help with lots of buzzing
David is right. You have to take a mercilessly engineering type approach and locate the source of th ...
2-10-2013 at 04:17 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Any good reasonably priced ouds around Cairo?
From what I understand you can get a very nice oud from Fathy Amin's place for a fraction of what Ma ...
2-7-2013 at 04:17 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Interesting way to learn note reading for oud
Very nice. Thanks!
2-3-2013 at 07:02 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Need some advice
@alfalastini, welcome! Are you worried about shipping cost?The ribs are thin, and ouds are so light ...
1-23-2013 at 05:04 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Ya Mustafa
I once paid a band a good wad to "play nothing but Ya Mustapha forever". Some guy paid 'em more to s ...
1-22-2013 at 04:27 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Yet another thread on fingerboard materials
[rquote=93368&tid=13668&author=Jody Stecher]Interesting guitar with great musical potential. ...
1-20-2013 at 06:18 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Chemically Treated Maple for Fingerboards?
Great, especially for luthiers, or for those of us who make our own fingerboards. Did you learn if t ...
1-20-2013 at 06:11 AM
by: fernandraynaud
A Low Cost Hardness Tester for Wood
John, any chance you can standardize the image size, and/or include a ruler, so we can get a sense j ...
1-20-2013 at 06:01 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Pipa
[size=-1]Well, yes.[/size] [color=Red]Good Point.[/color]
1-16-2013 at 10:25 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Yet another thread on fingerboard materials
Well, we do need some (credible) testimony or photos, to convince John Downing that fingerboard wear ...
1-16-2013 at 09:08 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Pipa
For what it's worth, may I be (politically incorrectly) honest?

I had a medium sized vinyl recor ...
1-16-2013 at 08:22 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
No, no, I'm not for reason and discipline. F'get 'bout it.
1-16-2013 at 04:20 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Pipa
The links on the Philmultic page seem broken. I don't generally like the Chinese pentatonic minimal ...
1-16-2013 at 04:18 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Pipa
The basic design of a fingerboard with a resonator body goes back to Egypt, maybe earlier. Right? Lo ...
1-16-2013 at 01:50 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
The fingerboard field is heating up. I was looking at a Chinese guitar that until recently was made ...
1-16-2013 at 01:23 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Does anyone know this oudist?
Thanks, gentlemen. I find his ability to play in such a range of styles, including fingering full ch ...
1-16-2013 at 05:55 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Does anyone know this oudist?
He's called Nazeeh Bourish, and he has clips under several names on YouTube. Unusually versatile pla ...
1-16-2013 at 01:35 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
@john, As you note, the coating is thin, and the punch is smashing through. What I've seen happen on ...
1-15-2013 at 03:32 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
The better AKs are probably French Polished.
1-12-2013 at 11:39 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
Hey Geko, what bringeth you out of the woodwork? Do you know what Ibrahim uses on the standard 212 a ...
1-12-2013 at 11:04 AM
by: fernandraynaud
A Low Cost Hardness Tester for Wood
Looking at this paper we can see the enormous complexity of the issues.

In the case of a coated ...
1-12-2013 at 12:02 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
As far as i know, nobody but Luttgutt has ever obtained ANY information from Sukar. It would appear ...
1-11-2013 at 10:58 PM
by: fernandraynaud
A Low Cost Hardness Tester for Wood
We don't know how hardness measured by indentation relates to resistance to "minute (in amplitude) t ...
1-10-2013 at 06:11 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
Don't people in practice play guitar by fingering right behind the fret?

Feedback from Sukar own ...
1-10-2013 at 05:50 PM
by: fernandraynaud
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