Thanks, David. Fascinating. I've copied my oud-playing friend Kevin on this one, to see if he has any comments.
fretting my new favorite Chinese instrument: a Johnson stratocaster. Chris. On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:42 AM, David van Ooijen <[1][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 -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [2][email protected] [3]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
