zaherali - 12-2-2008 at 07:54 AM
sallam to all
her more pictures to my nahat oud
panço - 12-2-2008 at 08:27 AM
Very beatiful oud zeherali congrulations
suz_i_dil - 12-2-2008 at 09:00 AM
Hello Zaher
You made the new face to your oud? this is very nice work, do you have soundfile to share?
regards
Jassim - 12-2-2008 at 10:37 AM
its new oud not nahat
i think its fake
zaherali - 12-2-2008 at 11:06 AM
sallam brother jassim it's not fake it is nahat oud
but with new face this face made abo alla
i can send the lable of my oud "Gorge hana nahat 1956"
shareen - 12-2-2008 at 07:33 PM
Oh, here we go again, with poor Abu Ala and his "fake" ouds 
Just enjoy it, my friend. Abu is a great builder (I have one of his) and I also have 2 original Nahats. His oud stands up to each one of my Nahats.
Saalem , Shalom
zaherali - 12-3-2008 at 01:57 AM
hello my friend shareen it's not abo alla oud it is nahat oud with new face
that made by abo alla .
thanks
c_haloun - 12-3-2008 at 03:08 AM
hi zaher... can u post a pic of the oud's back ?
DaveH - 12-4-2008 at 01:20 AM
Would be good to see the back. Pictures of Abu Ala's own ouds in the past have shown very fine work. The work here seems very good too, but the grain
of the wood itself is very wide.
Marina - 12-4-2008 at 02:53 AM
I have Abou Alla's Nahat "copy" and the grain is big as well. I was wondering why
is so, but later I saw some more expensive ouds of other makers with wide grain too.
What do you think about this wide grain issue?
This are those two ouds one beside theother - Zaherali's & mine
zaherali - 12-4-2008 at 09:42 PM
thanks Mr. panço can you engoy with us send your oud i sure you have
grede oud
zaherali - 12-4-2008 at 09:48 PM
Hello marina you have nice oud by Abo alla it's like my oud but it is Gorge nahat 1956
i know you have a nice collaction ouds , you can ask Abo alla abaut my oud.
Thanks
shareen - 12-7-2008 at 05:46 AM
So the question is....is it really a Nahat if the face has been changed? Isn't the sound board the most important part of the oud? Can you really
still call it a Nahat. It is really a hybrid Nahat. WAs the original face so bad that it could not be restored?
suz_i_dil - 12-7-2008 at 06:53 AM
Same opinion than Shareen, for me once the face has been changed it is not a Nahat anymore, but here an Abo Alla oud with a vintage bowl.
Brian Prunka - 12-7-2008 at 10:26 AM
I think it depends on how well it was restored . . . if the original bracing was mostly intact and could be saved and the new face cut to the same
thickness and braced with the exact same dimensions/positions as the original, I think you should still think of it as a Nahat, but a "restored"
Nahat.
Generally, though, I agree with you guys. I have a Nahat bowl with a Najarian face and it sounds much more like a Najarian than a Nahat. I like the
bowl and the size of the oud though, so I think I'm going to have a new face put on it by Najib Shaheen; he understands the Nahat type of bracing
better than Najarian and may be able to copy the bracing from one of his similar Nahats.