Traditionally, a ney was made from bamboo. It has six holes on the front for the player’s fingers and one hole on the back for the thumb. The ney is a Turkish rim-blown wind instrument similar in style to a flute.
Serif Muhiddin Targan played the oud for the Istanbul City Orchestra, beginning in 1932. Musicians who played the Turkish oud include Yorgo Bacanos who performed from 1927 until his death in 1977.
The Turkish oud uses ebony for both the fingerboard and the tuning pegs. Today, strings are made from plastic though they were originally made from gut. The oud top is usually made with spruce wood though sometimes cedarwood is used. The bowl of the oud is generally made from walnut or maple wood. It has an unfinished thin sound board, tense strings, and the string courses are placed closer together.Ī Turkish oud has a higher pitched sound than an Arabian oud and the pitch range is similar to a lute or guitar. The Turkish oud has a sound that is bright and clear, more taut and shrill than the Arabian version. The Turkish oud is smaller than an Arabian oud. The word oud in Arabic means wood.Īn oud usually has 11 strings in six courses, however, they can also have 10 strings in five courses or 13 strings in seven courses. The oud was likely developed around the 6th or 7th century and may have been inspired by the barbat, a Persian instrument. This stringed instrument is pear-shaped and is played with a single pick. An oud has a shorter, smaller neck than a lute and no frets. The oud comes from the lute family of musical instruments.
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