Hi, Kevin, Thanks for your info. In answer to Kevin's question, I certainly paid more attention because I got an oud. It's great fun! Why didn't you tell me? :-) Best to all, and keep playing.
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Kevin germain <[1][email protected]> wrote: Hey there. nice to 'meet' you. I am not sure of the history of when where and why frets were removed, or put on for that matter. Much like the early Greek treatises, a lot of the musicological arabic texts from way back were from a theoretical standpoint, they often did not reflect performance practice. Farbi, Kindi were philosophers and I do not know how much of their theorizing was related to the actual history for the oud. there is a great forum, maybe some of these folks might know: [2]http://www.mikeouds.com/messageboard/ Chris did you bring this up ~ because you got an oud?? :) kevin Christopher Stetson wrote: 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 <[3][email protected] <mailto:[4][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 [5][email protected] <mailto:[6][email protected]> [7]www.davidvanooijen.nl <[8]http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/> ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at [9]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html <[10]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html> -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.mikeouds.com/messageboard/ 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. mailto:[email protected] 7. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 8. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 9. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html 10. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
