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The origin of the oud belongs to the ancient times and similar instruments were used by the Babylonian and ancient Egyptian. Until today, oud is played as the "king of instruments" in Arabic culture.
The oud found his way to Europe in medieval times and it became "lute". During the Renaissance the lute was also regarded as the "king of instruments".
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Biwa 8th century: The Imperial Household Agency website:
shosoin.kunaicho.go.jp/treasures?id=0000014803&ind… Silk Road in the I century AD:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silk_Road_in_the_I… Gaku-biwa:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biwa#Gagaku-biwa Detail of painting The Virgin and Child, by Masaccio, 1426:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road Shoso-in:
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/正倉院 Biwa:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biwa_(1).jpg A selection of biwa:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biwa sawari:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biwa_details_1.jpg Back-side of Biwa:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Satsuma_Biwa_MET_1… Lute collection in Deutches Museum:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deutsches_Museum_(… The Age of the Caliphs:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_expansion_o… Caliphate of Córdoba c. 1000 AD at the apogee of Almanzor:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Califato_de_C%C3%B… Trobadours:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Troubadours_berlin… Lute maker:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lute_maker_tools_-… Global temperature changes of the last millennium: R. Connolly, and M. Connolly (2014). Global temperature changes of the last millennium, Open Peer Rev. J., 16 (Clim. Sci.), ver. 1.0.
oprj.net/articles/climate-science/16 Medieval Warm Period: Parable of the Vineyard-grapes from Canaan-Harley MS 4996, f. 24v British Library
Oud from the 19th century:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stringed_instrumen… Theorbo and lute from
the 17th century:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute#/media/File:078_Museu_d… Theorbo:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theorbo-ref-white.… #naochika#naosogabe
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1 month ago
A well-presented video. I'm a luthier, and have been building instruments since 1963. I've built many mediaeval and renaissance instruments, but only one lute. I have also taken a 1930s oud, which was built in Egypt but became broken, and have converted it into a 6-course (12-string) lute. Your demonstration of a lute played without the tied frets shows, once and for all, that they are basically the same instrument, separated mainly by playing styles. Of course, all lutes, except those recent ones constructed with fixed frets to emulate the guitar, can be played as ouds by removing or pushing back the tied frets, as you have done. One can play an Arabic Oud like a lute by adding tied frets, and many old recordings have been created by doing just that.
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