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Coonskin |
Playing a Turkish Saba taksim at that particular moment, during the song Dort Beygir, a gypsy song in a 9/8 meter. To hear some tracks of my banjo and non-banjo music: http://soundcloud.com/hillbilly-cannibal
2 comments on “Coonskinning the Oud”
Mike Moss Says:
Thursday, June 28, 2012 @2:06:02 PM
Nice Oud! I bought an Oud really cheap in Marrakech several years ago, but it was really beaten up and beyond repair, the soundboard was coming off, the rosette was smashed in, and it made a rattling, buzzing sound whenever I played the strings. From the thick, sticky coat of patina on the back of the neck it was obvious it had been played a lot but there wasn't much left to salvage.
Coonskin Says:
Thursday, June 28, 2012 @7:42:11 PM
That was a pretty good Ud; I sold it for a better one, then I sold THAT, because I stopped playing. It really is never ending study; makams, makam families, modulations, koma substitutions, a million different types of Carpma(sliding hammer ornament). I knew I wasn't going to get where I needed to be to be satisfied, so I let it go. It's a fun instrument, for sure, and an amazing amount of work.
You really do have to have a good one. Otherwise it isn't worth playing; the variances in intervals really have to be perceptible, or it's a waste. :)
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