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Sasha
Oud Maniac
Posts: 95
Registered: 1-12-2003
Location: San Diego, California
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My friends call my music room 'The Seraglio', and my instruments are referred to as 'Sasha's fat-bottomed concubines'...
Here's a list of the ones that I play on a regular basis:
Strings
Oud
Turkish saz - cura, bozuk, baglama and divan sizes
Azeri koshkarjeh - essentially the same as the Uzbek and Kashgar rawap (skin face, sounds like Persian tar).
Turkmen dutar
Cumbus
Kyrgyz komuz
Bowed strings
Black Sea Kemenche
Egyptian rebab
Winds
Turkish ney
Zurna/mizmar
Armenian duduk
Armenian paku
Macedonian kaval
German mediaval bagpipes
mezuod (Maghrebi bagpipes)
Sipsi
Mijwiz
Argul
Percussion
Davul/tupan/tabl beledi
Persian def (with chains)
Tar
Bendir
Darabukkah
Riqq/mazhar
Ghatam (Indian clay pot srum)
Armenian dhol
Persian tombak
Moroccan qarqaba
There are a bunch of other instruments of various types, but the ones listed above are the ones I play on a regular basis...
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DaveH
Oud Junkie
Posts: 526
Registered: 12-23-2005
Location: Birmingham, UK
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The guitars are both beautiful and it took me a long time to find the "style" of classical guitar that I really liked - gentler sound, lighter action
than the really loud, bassy ones that are the norm these days. But they've been criminally neglected of recent years owing to a growing obsession with
things round-backed. I like the way the sound is much more subtle and multi-dimensional than the guitar.
I got into the renaissance lute first as I loved the sound and, like the oud, because it was THE instrument at the time, there's a huge amount of
really beautiful music for it - not just of the "men in tights" variety. Then I branched out to baroque lute which is a totally different beast. To be
honest I've made limited progress on this - all those strings and a quite different right hand technique have seen to that, plus spending a lot of
time in countries with very unforgiving climates - 100% humidity and air contitioning is not the environment to take a delicate instrument like a lute
- believe me, I found out the hard way. But I still play a few pieces and it sounds fantastic, even with me at the helm - soft, but really deep and
strong.
So I've lost my guitar technique (and my nails) because I got into lutes, but with too many roundbacks to concentrate on I've never really mastered
any of them (oud included). If there was a royal society for the prevention of cruelty to musical instruments, they'd confiscate my gorgeous guitars
and probably force me to concentrate on one of the lutes only. But I couldn't give any of them up because, even with limited skill, they make such
lovely noises when I do pick them up. What are you going to do? 
Once I had a plan to collect a whole bunch of plucked string instruments, but I underestimated the effort in learning an instrument well and it's
really sad just to have them on a wall or locked up in a case unused. So i'm pretty much resigned to sticking to these for life now. But if I had to
choose a new one I think I'd go for the setar. Or maybe a corsican cetera, which is a kind of cittern with 8 strings. Or a portuguese guitar for some
homely fado...
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DaveH
Oud Junkie
Posts: 526
Registered: 12-23-2005
Location: Birmingham, UK
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Sorry I went on a bit there and I think the first bit of my post got cut. I was just saying that, like someone said above, I got into all my
instruments because I really liked the sound and the specific music it allowed you to play, and usually because I was attracted by a particular artist
or composer:
Classical guitar by Manuel Contreras - Andres Segovia (of course)
Flamenco guitar by Manuel Raimundo - Manuel Morao on siguiriyas and Merenguito on granainas
8 course renaissance lute by Malcom Prior - Francesco Canova da Milano (composer)
13 course baroque lute by Cesar Mateus - Silvius Leopold Weiss (composer)
6 course floating bridge oud by Nazih Ghadban - Munir Bashir.
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gregorypause
Oud Addict
Posts: 44
Registered: 10-20-2007
Location: Hungary
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I play guitar most often. I can manage on bass, mandolin and citera (hungarian zither) as well.
What I find most refreshing in playing the oud and guitar is that each instrument has its limitations and the other instrument excels in the same
area. I mean the oud is mainly a melodic instrument with no frets, so there is a lot of freedom in playing it, but the scales are limited mostly
because of the 'droning' lower strings. The guitar gives you a lot of freedom in playing scales in different keys. I play mostly chords with
occasional solos - so not much focus on the melody side.
Convoluted theory, I know. 
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Tkoind
Oud Maniac
Posts: 74
Registered: 7-24-2007
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Mood: dreaming
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Mourad_X, your room has a similar thing going as ours. The trusty iMac and electronics, random percussion and in our case more long neck string
instruments than we often have time to play. I'd love to hear what you are creating there!
Sasha, want to join a band in Tokyo? Sounds like you have a strong Silk Road interest too. We have had a hard time finding bowed and wind instrument
players here with experience and interest in Silk Road instruments.
Would also love to hear what you are doing.
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