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Typical struck bottles sound from about C7 to C8. Of course, music can be transposed into this range as needed. The pitch, dynamic range, and timbre depend on the bottles used, for example their material, shape, thickness, and so on. In practice, multiple bottles are typically used, one for each desired pitch.
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 ...
Agarwood, aloeswood, eaglewood, gharuwood or the Wood of Gods, commonly referred to as oud or oudh (from Arabic: عود, romanized: ʿūd, pronounced), is a fragrant, dark and resinous wood used in incense, perfume, and small hand carvings.
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.
The Marquina non-drip oil bottle or cruet (in Catalan: setrill antidegoteig de Marquina, in Spanish: aceitera antigoteo de Marquina) is a transparent and conical cruet designed to contain oil or vinegar without dripping or dirtying, and was designed by Rafael Marquina in 1961. The sales success of this model has led to countless plagiarisms of ...
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Maqam scales in traditional Arabic music are microtonal, not based on a twelve-tone equal-tempered musical tuning system, as is the case in modern Western music. Most maqam scales include a perfect fifth or a perfect fourth (or both), and all octaves are perfect. The remaining notes in a maqam scale may or may not exactly land on semitones.
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]