Aymara
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New oud owner
Hi everybody,
I finally got my first oud.
Yesterday I made the trip to Holland to visit Sabbassi and I fell in love with the rosewood oud, which he showed us HERE.
After a few hours of playing I now get used to the fretless fingerboard ... as a former guitarist I expected this too take more time. I also would
have expected to need more time to get used to the arabic tuning C-F-A-d-g-c, but I'm slowly getting familiar with it.
But who cares ... I'm making progress faster than I expected and that makes fun  I'm working on my first song for oud now ... I don't like playing other peoples songs 
Gotta check out my cheap PC microphone, if it's good enough, then I'll upload a short sound sample ... if you can stand that I'm an absolute beginner, far from perfect, I play European music and I bet you'll
notice, that I'm a former guitarist.
Oh ... btw ... I have a question about the strings, which concerns me a bit ... please have a look HERE.
PS: I forgot to mention ... in real life it sounds much better as in the video Sabbassi posted 
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Luttgutt
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well who wouldn't fall in love with such oud :-)
CONGRATULATIONS!
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Aymara
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Thank you very much. What I like most, is it's warm sound through the whole frequency range.
I think Sabbassi found a very nice combination of wood choice and soundhole concept on this oud, that made this possible.
PS: My PC microphon is too bad to make a realistic sounding recording, but Tony gave me a nice tip for building a cheap reasonable pickup at low
costs. That might be a solution until I have money for a good one.
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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FLIPAX
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Hey Chris!
Mabrouk!!!!
Hope You Find Your Bliss .....While Playin this Oud....
Post Some New Pictures man! I would Love to see Some other Pic's aside from the sabbassi
post.
Thanks
Philip
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Christian1095
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Congrats.....
Chris Walters
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jkndrkn
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Congratulations!
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Aymara
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Thanks,
FernandRaynaud gave me a nice tip how to build a cheap pickup, that should yield better results as my horrible PC micro.
I hope I can give it a try the next days ... one piece is still missing, but should be easier to get as what I already bought.
Photos will follow.
What do they write at the end of TV series? ...
... to be continued
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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FlappitWitch
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Hi - I too have just acquired my first oud. I live in UK, but went to Soke for it. It is made in Izmir. I am trying to choose a chromatic tuner to
use. Is the Korg CA-1 OK?
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Ararat66
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Hi there
Congratulations on your new ouds ... you will now need parallel lives as they are seriously addictive  ) BTW where are you in the UK?
Cheers
Leon
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Aymara
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Hi!
There is a Korg model, that is often recommended, but I don't know, if it was the CA-1.
How would you like a good tuner for free? I use AP Tuner, which was recommended in the Advice Forum. Even with a cheap PC microphone it works great. And the best is you can save presets for
individual tunings for the case, you want to use a different tuning sometimes.
As far as you don't need a tuner to carry with you, AP Tuner is perfect.
Yes, but I need more lives ... I have too many hobbies
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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Aymara
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Let me show you something completely different ... I shot an infrared photo (no, it has nothing to do with heat photography), which shows nicely the wood grain of the dark rosewood.
[file]12432[/file]
Greetings from Germany
Chris
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FLIPAX
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Nice Pics man! I Like The Wood Grains.....
Definetely an Eye Catcher!
I Love How the oud Looks Like specially how the back is shaped and Looks like Big Half Watemelon!
Now I'm Hungry...
Put some More Chris. the more the merrier!
Flip
Every time I Hear The Oud, I fall into a Deep Long Trance of Perpetual Bliss!
"Naseem Al Rooh"
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