picked this up on mike's oud site:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn10686&feedId=online-news_rss20
.. says that a unique method of wood preservation
might be responsible for the tone of his instruments -
not the denser wood, produced by an unusually cold
winter theory, previously proposed.
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