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Question about woods
You're not easy to please, John. You seem to naysay a lot these days. I was trying to be helpful by ...
1-9-2013 at 01:59 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Baglama Saz
Welcome, Bill, love your playing, very clean!

[size=-1]All you need is an Oud ;-)[/size]
1-9-2013 at 03:10 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
John, I don't understand what you're talking about.

The problem with (fretted) guitars is FRET w ...
1-9-2013 at 12:01 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
You're quite right to go back to square one. On a fretted instrument it's not the same, the frets ta ...
1-8-2013 at 02:01 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about ribs
Hi, Alexi. The way people do it is by building a sort of "positive mold-frame" out of wood. You can ...
1-7-2013 at 01:56 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
Thanks, John, that's great.

I don't know much about wood mechanics, but I wonder if hardness, as ...
1-7-2013 at 01:45 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
I sure wasn't contributing to that one spiraling. And where do you read sarcasm in what I said here? ...
1-6-2013 at 05:19 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Tuning peg sizes?
I have some viola rosewood pegs, but shaving them was too difficult. I had set my shaver to the tape ...
1-4-2013 at 01:00 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
Brian, you and I both know it doesn't "contain" cyanide, it has cyano groupings in the molecular str ...
1-3-2013 at 09:29 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
In that paper, acrylates are very deeply absorbed into wood prepared in a vacuum. Having used surfac ...
1-3-2013 at 09:13 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
But we were talking about superglue. There is no "cyanide" in cyanoacrylate, and besides, the toxic ...
1-3-2013 at 08:27 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Tuning peg sizes?
Thanks, Brian. What was odd about Dov's pegs? Which ones did you try, the "Nahats", or the 7-9 or th ...
1-3-2013 at 07:29 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Can the oud be converted into a lute?
After starting out on the oud learning maqamat, with a risha, I've lately been enjoying playing wit ...
1-3-2013 at 07:23 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Tuning peg sizes?
I see that Dov Schmidt offers oud pegs with 61mm Shaft length, with either 7-9mm or 8-10mm taper, to ...
1-3-2013 at 06:28 PM
by: fernandraynaud
a new kind of Shams
I rather like that subtle two-tone light/dark shams so common on Turkish ouds. It seems like a shado ...
1-2-2013 at 04:11 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
It's not cyanide ;-) The way superglue works is by having reactive C-N tails on an acrylic polymer ...
1-2-2013 at 03:57 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Another Carbon Fiber Oud
The concept that the back and sides of string instruments play no role in the timbre does not agree ...
1-2-2013 at 03:04 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
For some reason this page keeps losing the post when it refreshes, but here's a summary. People coa ...
1-2-2013 at 02:03 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Question about woods
For what it's worth, guitar maple necks are fairly common, but maple fingerboards are tricky. Withou ...
1-2-2013 at 03:35 AM
by: fernandraynaud
Extended Taqsims in Persian/Indian Style
The "Ancient sounds" CD by Rahim AlHaj (oud) and Amjad Ali Khan (sarod) might be of interest to you. ...
12-22-2012 at 02:16 PM
by: fernandraynaud
Oud effects - pedals?
If you can take an instrument down to a store like Guitar Center, you can try out the multi-effect p ...
12-22-2012 at 01:59 PM
by: fernandraynaud
electric oud insight
Yes, it seems the Turkish standards for student ouds are higher.
12-21-2012 at 11:05 AM
by: fernandraynaud
why do people lie and cheat ?
Really?
12-21-2012 at 10:45 AM
by: fernandraynaud
electric oud insight
Is there a reason you can't use an acoustic oud with integral pickup? There are such ouds available ...
12-21-2012 at 03:19 AM
by: fernandraynaud
why do people lie and cheat ?
So sorry to hear the story. Be sure to report this in your feedback and ask ebay how to handle it. I ...
12-21-2012 at 03:10 AM
by: fernandraynaud
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