rojaros
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Unorthodox Oud Repair
Hi there,
I'm new in Oud Forum. I wanted to share some experience with you that might be useful. If not, forgive me bothering you.
I just got this Oud from german ebay auction. It has kindly been identified by a forum meber as made by Khidor Mostafa Daghir on Mohamed Ali street in
Cairo.
It came came to me as a parcel and ... the tuning peg box was loosely hanging away from the neck - not a nice surprise. I quickly figured out that a
professional repair woud cost at least as much as the oud itself, so I tried to find out a way to do the rpair by myself, especially as I didn't had
a clue whether the oud will be worth of the work or not.
I ordered Titebond Professional (it came within 2 days from USA to Germany!!!) and did the repair the following way:
- First, cleaning the joint from old glue
- Scd. making sure the peg box and the joint fited together reasonably
- third, put the glue (more then needed) on the wood
- fourth: securing the peg box with four strings, two of them pulling in front, two of them pulluing from behind (see picture attached).
IT WORKED - everything is just fine - and the oud was worth it.
BTW Titebond professional (brown package) is just fantastic, and I will tell you another usful application I found on this Oud in another
contribution 
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ALOMARI
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nice work , it would be nicer though if you let us hear it , don't you think
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rojaros
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Thank you!
I'm a poor player and I have no clue how to make you hear my playing if I'd record it???
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rojaros
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Hi, I did a first recording of this freshly repaired oud - as I wrote, it's not a great playing but you can get an Idea of the sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D83JHLJMlM&eurl=http://www.yout...
BTW: I don't know why the picture and sound is completely out of sync, I don't have any experience with video recording (I used the notebook webcam
for video recording) - any advice for that?
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