The oud, a stringed instrument, is believed to date back to around 2350 BC to the Akkadian civilisation located in present-day Iraq. It went on to become a popular musical instrument during the old ...

Michael Onsy with Albert Mansour, a popular oud-maker in Lebanon facebook / Michael Onsy You’ve probably heard it many times over and didn’t even realise it. But it accompanies just about every type ...

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An oud is a small, pear- shaped stringed instrument that dates back about 5,000 years. It is widely considered to be a precursor to the English lute. It is fretless and typically has 11 strings, 10 of ...

Palestinian Ali Hasneen, 57, makes traditional Oud by hand inside his shop in the West Bank City of Nablus, on Nov. 26, 2018. (Xinhua/Nidal Eshtayeh) NABLUS, West Bank, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- "To mend the ...

David Lindley — four parts imp and five parts virtuoso — is a certified monster on every stringed instrument you’ve never heard of. But recently, he said, he’s been playing a whole lot of oud. Well ...

On Wednesday 6 April, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina celebrated the opening of Alexandria Arabian Oud House "I have been aiming for this project for nearly ten years, especially after I received many ...

Sandy Bull, an influential musician whose eclecticism and mastery of the guitar and such exotic stringed instruments as the oud presaged musical trends of the 1960s and beyond, died Wednesday at his ...

Rahim Alhaj is an internationally acclaimed Iraqi oud player. The Portland String Quartet began its 2013-14 season, featuring guests in collaboration, with the appearance of internationally acclaimed ...

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