spyblaster
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5 holes oud, not the cool one!
A customer brought this oud for maintenance. The pick guard had loosened so I had to remove the old glue and install the pick guard again, and this is
what I saw. Unfortunately this Turkish student oud had no ID card in it.
Here is all I can say to the luthier: Come on dude!
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The Oud is my life, n my life is the Oud
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mavrothis
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Looks like the mice got in. Did they manage to get out? 
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bulerias1981
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You know... I've removed some pickguards in my day and I have seen some weird stuff happening underneath, including holes like this!!
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Hasan
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how does the oud sound now with those nasty holes? 
i read that old arabic ouds had a leather soundboard with no holes. one day the great Zeryab woke up and found out that a rat made a hole for him in
his soundboard. full of sadness and anger, he picked up his oud and played. he was shoked! it sounded better then holes became standard.
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Jody Stecher
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Many years ago (43 of them, if I'm counting right) a neighbor of mine built an oud with a mule skin soundboard. It was the head of conga drum. And
this oud sounded great. I don't remember if it had a sound hole or not. And I don't remember the bowl. I don't remember a rat either. But we had a
family of raccoons in the back yard.
Quote: Originally posted by Hasan  | how does the oud sound now with those nasty holes?
i read that old arabic ouds had a leather soundboard with no holes. one day the great Zeryab woke up and found out that a rat made a hole for him in
his soundboard. full of sadness and anger, he picked up his oud and played. he was shoked! it sounded better then holes became standard.
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SamirCanada
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I have seen a similar situation where the top was Pine wood and a knot was under the sound board, the knot dried and had fallen out so there was a
hole.
I honestly dont know what kind of effect it would have had on sound. as bad a it looks, I dont think it would have a huge effect to have holes under
the pickguard.
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jdowning
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Note that - according to the early iconography many of the oud like instruments had no visible sound holes cut into the sound board. Indeed an oud
without soundholes would still work - sound being radiated from the sound board vibration - it just would not 'benefit' from the 'Helmholtz' bowl air
resonance phenomenon.
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