--- "Smishkewych, Wolodymyr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An oudman in Texas? I think my good friend and early music/Irish trad > plucked strings virtuoso Chris Smith might be one, in Lubbock, though > I don't think he is a maker...or an "oudier". Heck, 'Luth', 'laud' > and liuto' are all from 'al-oud' anyway...it makes sense...
Nope, I'm more or less aware of Chris because of his book, I'm also painfully aware of the 300 miles is is from here to Lubbock. Ahhh, of course "al-oud" . "Oud" and "lute" is almost the same word, I wondered where the "L" came from. > > Anecdotally, and perhaps not so practically, my previous HG (now in > the able hands of Judith--how is it doing?) was trapezoidal, has one > sound C-hole in the shape of an old Ma Bell telephone > receiver-symbol, and the other is the F-clef abstract logo of the > workshop that made it. Sounded fine to me, looked weird to some, but > apparently it worked. And they were not within any proportional > placements respective to the instrument, as far as I knew. We're not > dealing the the same mathematical-acoustic phenomena as with violins, > so... Judith, I blushingly admit I haven't looked up your gallery of Gurdies, you got a picture up of that? > > > cheers, a good sukkot, a good ramadan, and hope whoever knew had a > good St Francias day and Gandhi's birthday...quite a week! Shoot, missed it again. Roy
