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[*] posted on 3-4-2006 at 03:56 AM
Question about Long neck oud


Hello,

Has anybody ever had an oud with a long neck or know a maker who made/make them?


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[*] posted on 3-4-2006 at 08:23 AM


If you look at magdy el ashmawy's oud they have a short body wich makes it look like the neck is long. I think the neck is actualy a little bit longer too.
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[*] posted on 3-4-2006 at 09:49 AM


hi, you might wanna look at the following website first:

http://www.behroozinia.com/_web/002_barbat/barbat.html

Fingerboard length- 37cm
Neck length- 26cm
On-face finger board- 11cm
String length- 61.5cm
Bowl length- 44cm
Bowl width- 30cm
Bowl depth- 20cm
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[*] posted on 3-4-2006 at 09:50 AM


Samir is right. I think that El-Ashmawy built an oud with a shortened body, which allowed him to have a fingerboard of a full octave rather than a fifth without having longer strings and uncomfortable fingerings.
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[*] posted on 3-5-2006 at 05:22 AM
Long neck


Al halabi, and everybody
Thanks for your posts.

I think Eng. El Ashmawi does not make them. All I know is that he came up with the design I could be wrong ... maybe he did not. But I am sure he does not make them.

Eng. El Ashmawi does not give measurements of the oud too. I am not sure if Eng. El Ashmawy can help since he is a member in the forum now.

I have seen one Egyptian oud with a long neck. The size on Barbat site maybe designed for Iranian tuning but not for arabic otherwise it will be one and half tone short. The length of the neck should be a full octave at the end of the neck if we go by a roughly 61 cm vibrating length.

Any more inputs?




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