Contest # 3 - Now what?

This is the last, in this series anyway.
I need to hear what and why this time, so be specific.
Here's a hint: it's Greek!
As before, past winners, pros and smarty pants know-it-alls are ineligible.
You may consult to solve the riddle, but I will divide the prize among your team, so each will get a piece of the risha.

i dont think its a manol but an Ilias oud...if the question should be who the maker was )


Nikos

Richard, I cannot thank you enough. An envelope arrived today, and my wife brought me the contents: two Dr Oud business cards. I fortunately asked if anything else was in there, and she said no. It wasn't until later that she brung a thin strip of white polyethylene (?) with blue scrawls on it. Whether there's an "o" in there is not going to cause any debate. It's subtle. It's unique. Thank you!

p.s. It's the first thing I've won in ages. I only hope that in some sort of Lysenko coupling, winning the risha doesn't reduce my chances of more material winnings at the lottery.

Quote: Originally posted by Multi Kulti

i dont think its a manol but an Ilias oud...if the question should be who the maker was ) Nikos

Quote: Originally posted by mrkmni

you re doing something to the ribs from inside... Where is my risha?

Quote: Originally posted by bibo10

....it looks scary!

I agree...

OK a shot in the dark

I think the damp sock is to help restore the curved wave that is built into the soundboards of some Greek/Armenian ouds particularly Karibyans (mine included) when looking across the top from the side - for some reason the integrity of that curve was lost (by a broken brace or just age and string tension causing the top to sink) and the top has been humidified to allow the wood to regain some flexibility. My guess is that a brace might have been replaced prior to this to restore this top surface curve and this clamp holds the top in position whilst the top softens very slightly before the new shape 'sets'.

Leon

Quote: Originally posted by Ararat66

OK a shot in the dark...blah, blah, blah... My guess is that a brace might have been replaced prior to this to restore this top surface curve and this clamp holds the top in position whilst the top softens very slightly before the new shape 'sets'. Leon

Quote: Originally posted by FastForward

Another shot in the dark. To clean the inside from glue. Your hand is too big to fit in the soundhole, so you used a clamp with bar at the end and a wet towel.

Quote: Originally posted by mrkmni

It is so hard. Give one Risah to all participants...

Quote: Originally posted by oudistcamp

The wet sock is keeping the support beam (under it) moist. The beam is used to level the split face while gluing. The moisture prevents the glue from gluing the face to the support beam if there is any excess glue.

Ilias

I don't know the answer, but judging from what I can see on the picture the details look exactly like my Copcuoglu oud ... so are you secretly repairing my Copcouoglu? Is any problem with it I didn't know? Thanks, in that case.

BTW as Copcuoglu was said to having copied Manol I suspect it is a Monol oud. The tools look as if you were fixing some internal structure around the sound hole itself (I don't know the technical terms anyway).

Best wishes
Robert

Quote: Originally posted by Dr. Oud

Quote: Originally posted by Multi Kulti   i dont think its a manol but an Ilias oud...if the question should be who the maker was ) Nikos nope, and btw, not Ilias

Quote: Originally posted by talmid

heres a shot. you're using the clamp and wet sock in order to stretch the sound hole, to stick a rosette inside of it, so you dont need to cut it to get inside the oud.

Quote: Originally posted by FastForward

Going back to what you were doing before to this oud. You had a broken rosette, and you mentioned that the you didn't pull the pieces out to glue them together. I am guessing, the clamp is holding the two pieces wood as shown in the picture, these two pieces hold the two pieces of the rosette. The wet sock is to prevent the glue from drying thereby having a rosette stuck to the two pieces of wood....

Quote: Originally posted by Estebanana _Stephen Faulk

Very clever Dr. Oud. I figured it out, but I won't say anything. Tom Chandler told me there were mysteries over here and I can't resist this kind of riddle. So I registered.

Quote: Originally posted by Dr. Oud

Quote: Originally posted by Estebanana _Stephen Faulk   2. guitarists don't need a mizrab. I remember Keni Parker, long ago & far away in my former life as a flamenco wanna be... Thank you Dr. Richard, I admire your work very much. At the moment I'm warming up to trying the oud myself so that makes me a wanna be oudi.

Quote: Originally posted by DaveH

Well, it looks like it's the same oud as in your first example. So is this just the clamping of the horn rose from either side as the glue dries? But that sounds too simple. So I'll have another go as you haven't expressly forbidden multiple guesses (or does that come under the purview of the "smartypants" rule?). ...