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prettygoodwordoud (OOD) - n., a short-necked pear-shaped fretless lute used in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian music.
Most commonly 11 strings in six courses, but 10/five and 13/seven versions are also used. Most likely developed from the Person barbat, itself descended from similar instruments played throughout the middle east and central Asia for millennia. The name is from Arabic ʽūd, which literally means wood -- the similarity with lute is not a coincidence, as that's the same word passed through Old Occitan into Old French with the added definite article, al-ʿūd.
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Most commonly 11 strings in six courses, but 10/five and 13/seven versions are also used. Most likely developed from the Person barbat, itself descended from similar instruments played throughout the middle east and central Asia for millennia. The name is from Arabic ʽūd, which literally means wood -- the similarity with lute is not a coincidence, as that's the same word passed through Old Occitan into Old French with the added definite article, al-ʿūd.
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---L.
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Date: 2022-10-05 03:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-05 04:14 pm (UTC)I had that reaction too -- I kinda had the impression it was a woodwind, kinda like a clarinet maybe.
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Date: 2022-10-05 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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