stos - 7-29-2012 at 02:30 PM
helllo!
not directly oud related but there is a nice video of this concert :
http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Stelios_Petrakis__Efren_Lopez__et_B...
francis - 7-29-2012 at 04:24 PM
This is the concert that I regulary watch and listen since two monthes....I really like the way they play.
fernandraynaud - 7-30-2012 at 12:58 AM
Does anyone know how that fretless guitar is strung/tuned? It's very fine, and he plays it beautifully!
Thanks!
Giorgioud - 7-30-2012 at 01:42 AM
Very beautiful performance and a great ensamble, thanks for sharing!
The fretless guitar is tuned, from bass to treble: low Bb, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, C#. Yeah, he plays it really unusually for a guitar, doesn't he? He manages
to make it sound, in some places, like a cross between a Turkish oud and a tambur...........
Giorgioud - 7-31-2012 at 11:32 PM
And come to think of it, that fretless guitar tuning is a version of the Algerian tuning (low D, AA, DD, gg, cc, ff) transposed to the normal Arabc
tuning (low A, EE, AA, DD, gg, cc) but a semitone higher (probabily because the tuning that low caused buzzing), hence Bb, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, C#......very
ingenious way of adapting it to the guitar............
Ararat66 - 8-1-2012 at 06:00 AM
Wonderful music - thanks for posting
Leon