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musical glasses, glass harp Tuned Bottles are musical instruments crafted from everyday bottles ( found objects ) which are filled with water to create different pitches. The length of the air column above the water determines the resonant frequency, and thus the pitch achieved.
Faruk Türünz (born 28 June 1944 in Adana, Turkey) is a Turkish luthier who specializes in ouds and is considered one of the best oud makers. [1] His shop is in Istanbul , Turkey . Having worked as a primary school teacher for 10 years, Türünz started constructing ouds in 1984, after studying with Cafer Açın, head of the Musical ...
A Leyden jar (or Leiden jar, or archaically, Kleistian jar) is an electrical component that stores a high-voltage electric charge (from an external source) between electrical conductors on the inside and outside of a glass jar. It typically consists of a glass jar with metal foil cemented to the inside and the outside surfaces, and a metal ...
The oud (Arabic: عود, romanized: ʿūd, pronounced) [1] [2] [3] is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument [4] (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.
Cümbüş: tuned like an oud, short neck, fretless, six courses of strings, 34 inches long overall Cümbüş Extra : like the standard cümbüş but has wooden resonator instead of metal Cümbüş Saz : tuned like the a bağlama , long neck, tie-on frets, three courses of strings, 40 inches long overall
This is a list of people notable for playing the oud This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Conservation-restoration is the practice of cleaning and discovering the original state of an object, investigating the proper treatments and applying those treatments to restore the object to its original state without permanently altering the object, and then preserving the object to prevent further deterioration for generations to come (Caple, p. 5-6). [1]
The oud belongs to the family of short-scale lutes. The widest interval that can be played between the open string and the end of the oud fingerboard is a fifth (quint), although it is possible to play higher intervals on the same string by playing harmonics or flageolets on the open strings. Bashir introduced the use of harmonics into oud ...