oud music

Oud is extremely popular which is played by plucking, either ensemble or in solo.  It has pear-shaped, fretless as well as descent short necked face has five or six strings. Mostly what features make it more popular is it’s warm timbre, microtonal flexibility and low tessatura. It is often decorated nicely for more cool seeing. In this section we will discuss the main 10 reasons to start learning oud now.

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There are a total of 22 Arab states that form the Arab league.  But the one place that most Arab musicians will unanimously agree, particularly in the sound, design and soul of the Oud, is Egypt. ArabInstruments is once again proud to showcase to you the Egyptian oud.  Why is this instrument so well sought after? Because anyone who is an oud enthusiast has heard of names such as Farid El Atrash, Zakariyya Ahmed and many others who all created the best and most famous songs and not just famous but with deep soul and earth moving musical pieces, all with one instrument in their hand. The Egyptian oud.  That is why in order to give homage to this instrument, we carry only but the best that is available anywhere.