Bacanos, Bashir ... and the single bass at the bottom
Hi,
I have a question about the so called "Iraki tuning" with the single bass string at the bottom next to the highest pitch pair :
Do the masters using this kind of stringn setup actually played this bass string ? or used it only as a rest for the strokes of the highest pair above
?
Hi Eric,
The simple answer is yes : Munir Bashir for example, rearely use the F bass string for playing, but in some improvisation he did. Muhiddin Targan used
it a bit more I think in his compositions (I can search a sample for this). For the others oudists, I can't tell.
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