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Excellent Turkish Oud for sale

OudandTabla - 3-17-2011 at 03:43 PM

Greetings! I have used this Turkish oud to perform semi-professionally and record solo and with the group "Ala Nar" since I purchased it in 2003. It was made in 1994, and the tone has only grown more beautiful with age.

The bowl is walnut and lemon wood, and the soundboard is spruce. The rosettes are a dark wood, and the large one has a chip broken off.

Most importantly, the fingerboard has been replaced with solid rosewood, which improved the tone dramatically. Also, there was some damage to the bottom left edge of the bowl, which has been completely stabilised and repaired by a luthier. See the photos.

In addition, the instrument has been fitted with a passive LR Baggs piezo element, which offered excellent balanced tone for performing live, although of course by no means a substitute for the sound of a microphone.

I recently gained a flat-back oud which has become my preferred oud, and it is time to let the old one go. It is currently fitted with Thomastik-Infeld strings in Arabic tuning CFAdgc

I am asking $750, which is what I paid for it.

Thanks!

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OudandTabla - 3-17-2011 at 03:47 PM

This instrument was used for the album "With Each Good Rain" released in 2010. You can hear tracks from this album here:

http://www.amazon.com/With-Each-Good-Rain/dp/B003N6X62C

OudandTabla - 3-22-2011 at 01:10 PM

Please send me a U2U if interested. Thanks

OudandTabla - 4-6-2011 at 02:37 PM

I am reducing the asking price to $675.

Thanks