All About Oud Instrument

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A musical instrument with a large belly, a brief and curved handle, a beam and a plectrum. Its curved back is made of 19 or 21 boards within the form of a circle. The body is hollow. In the midst of the entrance section called the chest, there are small cavities on the sides called “roses”.

Oud instrument (written as “ud” in Turkish) is the ancestor of the European lute, name of which derives from “al-ud”. It’s not a local Turkish instrument but it has been played in Anatolia for a minimum of five centuries. Besides, within the history, the oud has been played by a number of civilizations in Central Asia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Arabia. Accordingly, there are a number of types of ouds besides Turkish oud. The oud instrument occupies an incredible place in Turkish Art Music, Turkish urban music (in fasil orchestras) and in arabesk music. Oud has been known from the documents and oral tradition because the king, sultan or emir of musical instruments.

History of Oud

In some sources, it is said that Farabi invented the oud, however long before Farabi, there are oud and comparable instruments in miniatures and reliefs. The principle reason why Farabi is perceived as an inventor is that he’s a musician who has mastered the oud and the tuning system he delivered to the oud. Farabi, who was a type of who gave the most comprehensive information in regards to the oud in his interval, added the fifth string to the oud, which was a 4-string instrument until that time. Concerning the oud, Ibn Sina (980/1037) from Farabi says in his book Kitabu’ş Şifa that it is without doubt one of the most well-known instruments. Tells technical information corresponding to chords and pitches with figures. While musical instruments had been talked about in the Ikhwan-i Safa tracts within the tenth century, it was said that essentially the most lovely of those was the oud.

The frets on the handle of the oud, preserved within the Farabi interval, were deserted towards the top of the tenth century. The oud was beforehand played with a wooden plectrum. The famous Andalusian musician Ziryab (11th century) changed it with a plectrum made of eagle feather. Immediately, plectrums made of versatile plastic are typically used.

The oud instrument made its way to Europe through Spain. Within the 13th century, the crusaders introduced it back to Europe, and in time, it grew to become the lute. That’s why lute takes its name after the oud (‘le ut’ in old French), however it’s been added completely different features from oud, like frets.

The oud, additionally which turned the focal point within the Ottoman palace in the fifteenth century, gained an irreplaceable worth that the public began to make use of in classical Turkish music in the nineteenth century.

Oud instrument has a large soundbox connected to a brief neck. The instrument has a pear-formed body which is a deep, striped bowl made from lightweight wood. The wood should be light because the bowl is supposed to reverberate when it is struck. The soundboard, the entrance part of the body, contains one or two, sometimes three sound holes. These sound holes may be oval or they can be ornamented depending on the lands they are performed on. There’s a piece of fish-skin or leather between the bridge and the sound gap with the intention to protect the stomach from the strokes of the plectrum. The bowl of the oud is shaped by thin woods or ribs bent over a mold. The number of the ribs varies from sixteen to 21. The tuning pegs of the oud are screwed to the pegbox.

The quality of the material used within the making of the oudis important. The more the material is various, the higher it sounds. A high-quality oud’s face is made from spruce. The tuning pegs and fingerboard are constructed from ebony. Maple, walnut, palisander and mahogany are used for the bowl.

The oud doesn’t have any customary dimension or number of strings. Yet normally, all the types of ouds have eleven gut strings which might be organized in 5 double-programs with a sixth, single bass string. Oud is performed with a plectrum. Its fretless neck permits the instrument to generate any intervals or microtones particular to the Center Eastern music. Oud instrument is suitable so that you can enjoy Turkish, Iran or Arab music by playing makams/maqamat.

Oudis played according to 2 schools of performance. The primary is “Ottoman” school and it accepts as principle the ornamentation of the sound, produced by delicate glissandos or the fingers and slight vibratos. The second approach is Egyptian approach, according to which the amount is amplified by firm strokes of the plectrum, which makes strings resonate. This type requires one other kind of virtuosity.

There are essentially six types of oud when they are considered according to their origin. Those types of oud mostly differ in their timbre and there are small dimension variations between them.

Arabic oud is the most known oud instrument type and maybe the most popular because of its romantic, rich and deep sound. It is heavier and slightly bigger comparing to Turkish ouds. Turkish ouds are employed in Turkey and Greece. They’ve a more treble sound. Syrian oud, which is a sub-type of Arabic oud generates plenty of overtones. Iraqi ouds may be categorized under Arabic ouds. Its strings are tied to the bottom of the instrument. Because of this feature, it is said that it has a floating bridge. Iranian oud, which can be called Barbat is more distinct and as a consequence of its form, it has a bass, deep, Persian sound.

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