I remember someone discussing a treatise by Al Kindi (? 11-12th
century?) which discusses how to place frets on the oud and discusses
Pythagorean schemes, etc. - so it seems that at least some ouds had
frets. Can anyone supply the details?
Martin
On 22/05/2011 12:59, alexander wrote:
These pictures here from Cantigas de Santa Maria were looked at up and down, by
countless people. It is hard to deny that most likely, those lute-ouds do not
have frets.
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/images/03.gif
Of course, some people argue that, as always, a pencil-challenged illuminator
just did not care for drawing the frets. Then we look at a fretted and fretless
guitar-things next to each other:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/images/15.gif
LXR
On Sun, 22 May 2011 09:42:06 +0200
David van Ooijen<[email protected]> wrote:
Oh, people who know better should step in.
What I understand is fretless oud playing is a relative modern (how
modern I do not know) thing. What I understand is early (how early I
do not know) Arabian music treatises have fretting schemes with tuning
systems for oud.
David - fretting for theorbo concert today
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