Greetings, oud and darbuka player here! I absolutely love the sound of Arabic oud, it's my most favorite instrument. Exploring all the various maqam is a real adventure!
Love your perspective and the way it plays with your music. I believe that deep reverance for spiritual/philosophical knowledge goes very hand in hand with music. Western philosophers like Schopenhauer have also said that music is the best personification of "The Will" which is the driving force of the world in his metaphysics. And Plato and Socrates thought the perfect leaders should have musical training for the spirit and for harmonious disposition. I think philosophers from many different cultures have such similar reverence. I hope you are brought great happiness by what you seek.
Thats interesting! if i may, i would like to sugest a theme i belive you would love to look into and maybe give us your perspectives on. As a brazilian, it is very common for us to hear about the "terreiros", originally - and still, bu not only - the places of worship created by the enslaved people in the diaspora, but, afterwards, also the places where "samba" came to be. While samba came in popular taste, the brazilian religions of african matrix are still persecuted by the christian majority of our country, even if it dictates some of our most common traditions, like wearing white (or other colors, each with a meaning of a desire) and jumping 7 waves in new year - a ritual for Yemanja, the yoruba goddess of the seas (rivers, originally), not to talk about the food we eat and the music we listen to. Music and dance is a big part of those religions (also cooking, eating and drinking), for the rituals are celebrated as a happy gathering to recive the entities. A big part of this religions is about music, wich is a central part of the cult (the music, called "pontos", played and singed by the "ogãs", that calls the "orixas", the gods or spirits of nature), and a big chunk of brazilian music have strong influences from this african rythms, intrinsecly related with these religions. If you want to get a taste, i reccomend the Afro Sambas, by Baden Powell - ua-cam.com/video/IxM04Y4XSFs/v-deo.html - a samba, as the name says it, with a lot of bossa nova influence (i feel you'll really dig this one); or Ponto de Nanã, by Mariene de Castro - ua-cam.com/video/CWSG_zKRCKw/v-deo.html - wich is a "ponto" played in a more traditional ijexá style. There is also the syncretic aspect of the religion - enslaved people used to disguise their worship identifilying their gods with catholic saints - wich became an actual faith and created an incredible enviroment of tolerance with diverse perspectives, described as reminiscent of the late roman empire, by Umberto Eco. I find it a really fascinating theme and i feel like it would interest you as well. If you would like to take a look into it, there are some religions like candomble and umbanda (the most widespreaded), the first one was deeply studied by french antropologist Pierre Verger, but there is a lot of studies done about it! Greetings!
Udu sadece arapbi olarak görmeyin Turkiyede de cok kullanılır ve Turk makamları 500 ze yakındır ama 13 basit makam genelde kullanılır O yuzden turk udu ayrı arap udu ayrılık gösterir ...
Philosopher's instrument, that's why we found single Muslim tradition (hadith) that prohibits this instrument, and this tradition I'm sure was appeared in the time of polemical environment somewhere in 8th century between traditionists and Aristotelian philosophers.
The debates seem to have appeared more clearly in the 9th century, and not necessarily between traditionalists and "philosophers", but simply different schools and individual jurists. For example, the Maliki school in Medina was more positively inclined to music than the Hanafi school in Iraq. And I am not aware of any hadith that talks about the Oud in particular. Could be wrong.
@@FilipHolm I'm not sure about the tradition that mentions oud literally. It's negative attitude towards all kind of musical instruments (attributed to Ibn Abbas). But in Al-Umm (Shafi'i) there are some debates on legal status about someone destroying other's property. CMIIW, Shafi'i quoted Abu Hanifa argument that if a man accidentally broke someone's property, he was obliged to fix it or buy a new one for him. Then his disciple asked what if a man broke someone's oud? Abu Hanifa answered no problem, that man should not buy a new one for this instrument is haram (without quoting any hadith about it). Probably traditional schools disliked philosopher's schools, and music had close relation to philosophers, so that's why this "music is haram" legal maxim, I'm sure, came from this period, not from the period of Muhammad. But, bro, that's quite strange, Abu Hanifa is known for his tendency to use "Quran only" rather than hadith, but his teaching about "music is haram" is closer to hadith scholars. Can you explain this bro?
@@janvanwelvaart8334what Allah has prohibited is all in the quran one commandment is to not say allah has prohibited something without proof. There is no quranic proof of forbidding music. The fanatics hate human expression in all forms.
Music flourished in the whole Islamic Golden Age. Al-Andalus was the musical capital of the world and not just in the 8th century. In bimaristans, music therapy was often practiced and not just in the 8th century and it continued to flourish long after it and flourised extemely in the early-to-mid 20th century; in Egypt, where I am from, you have many, many singers, composers, oud players, actors, etc, like Abdel Halim Hafez, Farid Al-Atrash, Umm Kulthum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Asmahan, Layla Mourad and others and many belly dancers like Tahia Carioca, Naima Akef, Samia Gamal and others. In fact, Egyptian cinema was the 3rd largest in the world in the 50s. And music still flourishes in Egypt and in a lot of the Islamicate World. Islam's relationship with Islam is much, much more complicated than that. I recommend you read On Music and Singing - Fatwa by Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Not to mention that there are many expressions of Islam. For example, in Sufism music is used as a form of worship and as a tool to get closer to God. Whether it is haram or not in some expressions of Islam doesn't change the fact that music flourished extemely in the Islamicate World. Ziryab, who was a polymath, composer and poet, came from Baghdad to Al-Andalus where he composed a 24 nubas, a nuba is an hour-long suite of music. So each hour of the day has music playing. Yes, so music is playing 24 hours in Al-Andalus. They also played many other types of music. From Muwashahat to Zajal to improvise music which is central to Islamicate World music. Saif al-din al-Urmawi al-Baghdadi wrote Kitab al-Adwar fi al-Musiqa in the 13th century which is a treatise on the theory of music, including division of frets, ratio of intervals, consonance and dissonance, cycles, rhythmic and melodic modes, and the 5-string oud. Fun fact, he was spared by the Mongols when they sacked Baghdad because they loved his music. The bimaristans in the Islamicate World (proper hospitals for treatment, which the equivalent of didn't exist in Catholic Europe at the time) often had music therapy. And of course like I mentioned Sufis used music as a form of worship. If we go to the Ottoman Empire, music also played a very central role with Sultans composing and commissioning complex pieces.
Music flourished in the whole Islamic Golden Age. Al-Andalus was the musical capital of the world and not just in the 8th century. In bimaristans, music therapy was often practiced and not just in the 8th century and it continued to flourish long after it and flourised extemely in the early-to-mid 20th century; in Egypt, where I am from, you have many, many singers, composers, oud players, actors, etc, like Abdel Halim Hafez, Farid Al-Atrash, Umm Kulthum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Asmahan, Layla Mourad, Riad El-Sonbati, Mohamed Al-Qasabgi and others and many belly dancers like Tahia Carioca, Naima Akef, Samia Gamal and others. In fact, Egyptian cinema was the 3rd largest in the world in the 50s. And music still flourishes in Egypt and in a lot of the Islamicate World. Islam's relationship with Islam is much, much more complicated than that. I recommend you read On Music and Singing - Fatwa by Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Not to mention that there are many expressions of Islam. For example, in Sufism music is used as a form of worship and as a tool to get closer to God. Whether it is haram or not in some expressions of Islam doesn't change the fact that music flourished extemely in the Islamicate World. Ziryab, who was a polymath, composer and poet, came from Baghdad to Al-Andalus where he composed a 24 nubas, a nuba is an hour-long suite of music. So each hour of the day has music playing. Yes, so music is playing 24 hours in Al-Andalus. They also played many other types of music. From Muwashahat to Zajal to improvise music which is central to Islamicate World music. Saif al-din al-Urmawi al-Baghdadi wrote Kitab al-Adwar fi al-Musiqa in the 13th century which is a treatise on the theory of music, including division of frets, ratio of intervals, consonance and dissonance, cycles, rhythmic and melodic modes, and the 5-string oud. Fun fact, he was spared by the Mongols when they sacked Baghdad because they loved his music. The bimaristans in the Islamicate World (proper hospitals for treatment, which the equivalent of didn't exist in Catholic Europe at the time) often had music therapy. And of course like I mentioned Sufis used music as a form of worship. If we go to the Ottoman Empire, music also played a very central role with Sultans composing and commissioning complex pieces.
Oud in Arabic, its pronunciation goes back to the type of wood from which it is made. This is all there is to it, and the pronunciations differ from an Arab speaker to a non-Arab speaker, so you cannot say this.
It actually sounds abut wired for me the you presented the Oud and you mentioned Iran and Greece!!! While you were suppose to mention the actual country’s who been using the Oud to compose fantastic music such Egypt and Iran etc !! The best out playing period are Egyptian and the top singers and composers came out of Egypt as well , Iraq had an out master from previous generations as well…….. but Iran has nothing to do with what the Oud was made to play, period. They have a total different scale and Greece they play Oud with a Pazook similar to Turkish suz technique….. my friend if you want to play real Oud, you have to play the old Egyptian Oud school and probably the Turkish as well cause they have a tasty techniques which they invented in their own playing…… other than those 2 isn’t Oud playing… it’s just something else I don’t even know what to call it!
No, it's an oud. A barbat is a different instrument with a different method of construction, different shape, different scale length, and different tuning in many cases. They also sound different.
@@jamcam9 barbats and ouds both come in different shapes and sizes. It was called barbat way before it was called an oud by Arabs. Oud is the name Arabs gave to barbat when they picked it up
@@a.s2205 my dude, that is not correct. The barbat is a Persian instrument that is the ancestor of the oud. The oud and barbat are not the same instrument. That's like saying a violin and a viola are the same nstrument but with different nanes, but they're not: they are different instruments.
@@a.s2205 Do you play the barbat? Maybe post some videos. You could even make one with an oud musician demonstrating how they are exactly the same instrument.
@@a.s2205no, he isn't. There were instruments like the oud, but the oud itself in its current form is an Arabic invention. It is Arabs who developed it further and perfected it. Arabs similarly also advanced Middle Eastern music theory very heavily.
btw many "arabic" sounding sounds originate from ancient Greek modes and scales, same with the oud instrument originating from the ancient greek barbiton and iranian barbat
sounds and looks beautiful
Lovers of musical instruments
You are a remarkable human Mr Holm, indeed.
"What's that?"
"al oud"
"A loot?"
"No, I give you good price?"
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Lute
xDD
@@Newstripper27 r/wooosh
Something like that bro, lots of theories
beautiful tune! why dont you upload some more music!
wow nice you are not only professor in religion but your passionate musician 👏
And a good one too!!
Oud means Old in Dutch, which is fitting.
I am Arabic, oud it means in Arabic wood, because its made from wood
Greetings, oud and darbuka player here! I absolutely love the sound of Arabic oud, it's my most favorite instrument. Exploring all the various maqam is a real adventure!
You should listen to Al Qanoune. Its another amazing instrument
Your pfp💀@@brahmaistrash.indiaisatoil5292
Very well played! Big fan of your work or rather works! I am a follower from Saudi Arabia.
Thank you for this vidéo and sharing about my culture ❤
Nice!
It will be also nice to do the same introduction with lavta!
As long as you able of course.
Love these Arab scales with dirty notes ❤
Dirty notes? 😳
@@Newstripper27he’s trying to point out how the instrument sounds not as bright as instruments that use frets.
@@Newstripper27 microtones
@@eymendakakno, he is mentioning microtones that he, a Westerner, precieves as out of tune or "dirty" and "spicy".
@@Ziad3195 that also makes sense
In Greece it's called Outi
Oud Is Amazing 😍
Tack!
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Please, more of this music 🙏
Recently introduced to this instrument and music. My go to music for relaxation!!
Very good explanations. Thank you.
Love your perspective and the way it plays with your music. I believe that deep reverance for spiritual/philosophical knowledge goes very hand in hand with music. Western philosophers like Schopenhauer have also said that music is the best personification of "The Will" which is the driving force of the world in his metaphysics. And Plato and Socrates thought the perfect leaders should have musical training for the spirit and for harmonious disposition. I think philosophers from many different cultures have such similar reverence. I hope you are brought great happiness by what you seek.
And it sounds like this…. Face changes and all the sudden the youtube channel guy is like a pro oud player! Haha
So beautiful 😍❤️ proud to Muslim Arabic with so much history and culture ❤❤
Iam playing oud❤❤❤🎉
Filip Holm thank you mate!.... Nice reporting.....what a great instrument to be able to use
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Beautiful ❤
Beautiful!
I am from lebanon and I play on عود
In indonesia its called gambus or gitar arab
Lol the guitar should be called aajam/ western foreign oud bcz its older than the guitar actually
Hello Filip. I love the playing. My ask though what style of oud you’re playing, I like that calm yet medium-paced melody.
I love & want to know what kind (maker) of that oud you're playing?
Love that sound
🤙from Philippines islands
Ah middle east music🤤
عاشت العرب ❤
Sounds goood ❤
Thank you!
We call the instrument in Iran like:
عود
لوط
بربط
Hipnótico, místico.
Wooow ❤
I legit fw with the cover of kerosene by yad oud
Thats interesting!
if i may, i would like to sugest a theme i belive you would love to look into and maybe give us your perspectives on.
As a brazilian, it is very common for us to hear about the "terreiros", originally - and still, bu not only - the places of worship created by the enslaved people in the diaspora, but, afterwards, also the places where "samba" came to be. While samba came in popular taste, the brazilian religions of african matrix are still persecuted by the christian majority of our country, even if it dictates some of our most common traditions, like wearing white (or other colors, each with a meaning of a desire) and jumping 7 waves in new year - a ritual for Yemanja, the yoruba goddess of the seas (rivers, originally), not to talk about the food we eat and the music we listen to.
Music and dance is a big part of those religions (also cooking, eating and drinking), for the rituals are celebrated as a happy gathering to recive the entities. A big part of this religions is about music, wich is a central part of the cult (the music, called "pontos", played and singed by the "ogãs", that calls the "orixas", the gods or spirits of nature), and a big chunk of brazilian music have strong influences from this african rythms, intrinsecly related with these religions. If you want to get a taste, i reccomend the Afro Sambas, by Baden Powell - ua-cam.com/video/IxM04Y4XSFs/v-deo.html - a samba, as the name says it, with a lot of bossa nova influence (i feel you'll really dig this one); or Ponto de Nanã, by Mariene de Castro - ua-cam.com/video/CWSG_zKRCKw/v-deo.html - wich is a "ponto" played in a more traditional ijexá style.
There is also the syncretic aspect of the religion - enslaved people used to disguise their worship identifilying their gods with catholic saints - wich became an actual faith and created an incredible enviroment of tolerance with diverse perspectives, described as reminiscent of the late roman empire, by Umberto Eco.
I find it a really fascinating theme and i feel like it would interest you as well. If you would like to take a look into it, there are some religions like candomble and umbanda (the most widespreaded), the first one was deeply studied by french antropologist Pierre Verger, but there is a lot of studies done about it! Greetings!
First it was barbat then oud and after oud lute in Europe but first it was in iran and named barbat😊
Udu sadece arapbi olarak görmeyin Turkiyede de cok kullanılır ve Turk makamları 500 ze yakındır ama 13 basit makam genelde kullanılır O yuzden turk udu ayrı arap udu ayrılık gösterir ...
Almost has a similar twang like a Japanese Biwa
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WHAT!? My Arab brain is blown away!
This is originally from Kurdish and original name is BAAR BAATH but Arabs have it right know and they changed the name to OUD عود
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how do I explain to my wife we have to buy this?
Buy it yourself, man. You are the man.
Wait you're the same guy! I know that voice very well
I thought oud was Arabic perfume
Yes, there is that Oud as well. Same spelling in English and Arabic but very different meaning based on context.
and TURKEY!
WE SAY "UD"
Better than gitaar
Philosopher's instrument, that's why we found single Muslim tradition (hadith) that prohibits this instrument, and this tradition I'm sure was appeared in the time of polemical environment somewhere in 8th century between traditionists and Aristotelian philosophers.
The debates seem to have appeared more clearly in the 9th century, and not necessarily between traditionalists and "philosophers", but simply different schools and individual jurists. For example, the Maliki school in Medina was more positively inclined to music than the Hanafi school in Iraq.
And I am not aware of any hadith that talks about the Oud in particular. Could be wrong.
@@FilipHolm I'm not sure about the tradition that mentions oud literally. It's negative attitude towards all kind of musical instruments (attributed to Ibn Abbas). But in Al-Umm (Shafi'i) there are some debates on legal status about someone destroying other's property. CMIIW, Shafi'i quoted Abu Hanifa argument that if a man accidentally broke someone's property, he was obliged to fix it or buy a new one for him. Then his disciple asked what if a man broke someone's oud? Abu Hanifa answered no problem, that man should not buy a new one for this instrument is haram (without quoting any hadith about it). Probably traditional schools disliked philosopher's schools, and music had close relation to philosophers, so that's why this "music is haram" legal maxim, I'm sure, came from this period, not from the period of Muhammad. But, bro, that's quite strange, Abu Hanifa is known for his tendency to use "Quran only" rather than hadith, but his teaching about "music is haram" is closer to hadith scholars. Can you explain this bro?
@@janvanwelvaart8334what Allah has prohibited is all in the quran one commandment is to not say allah has prohibited something without proof. There is no quranic proof of forbidding music. The fanatics hate human expression in all forms.
Music flourished in the whole Islamic Golden Age. Al-Andalus was the musical capital of the world and not just in the 8th century. In bimaristans, music therapy was often practiced and not just in the 8th century and it continued to flourish long after it and flourised extemely in the early-to-mid 20th century; in Egypt, where I am from, you have many, many singers, composers, oud players, actors, etc, like Abdel Halim Hafez, Farid Al-Atrash, Umm Kulthum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Asmahan, Layla Mourad and others and many belly dancers like Tahia Carioca, Naima Akef, Samia Gamal and others. In fact, Egyptian cinema was the 3rd largest in the world in the 50s. And music still flourishes in Egypt and in a lot of the Islamicate World. Islam's relationship with Islam is much, much more complicated than that. I recommend you read On Music and Singing - Fatwa by Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Not to mention that there are many expressions of Islam. For example, in Sufism music is used as a form of worship and as a tool to get closer to God. Whether it is haram or not in some expressions of Islam doesn't change the fact that music flourished extemely in the Islamicate World. Ziryab, who was a polymath, composer and poet, came from Baghdad to Al-Andalus where he composed a 24 nubas, a nuba is an hour-long suite of music. So each hour of the day has music playing. Yes, so music is playing 24 hours in Al-Andalus. They also played many other types of music. From Muwashahat to Zajal to improvise music which is central to Islamicate World music. Saif al-din al-Urmawi al-Baghdadi wrote Kitab al-Adwar fi al-Musiqa in the 13th century which is a treatise on the theory of music, including division of frets, ratio of intervals, consonance and dissonance, cycles, rhythmic and melodic modes, and the 5-string oud. Fun fact, he was spared by the Mongols when they sacked Baghdad because they loved his music. The bimaristans in the Islamicate World (proper hospitals for treatment, which the equivalent of didn't exist in Catholic Europe at the time) often had music therapy. And of course like I mentioned Sufis used music as a form of worship. If we go to the Ottoman Empire, music also played a very central role with Sultans composing and commissioning complex pieces.
Music flourished in the whole Islamic Golden Age. Al-Andalus was the musical capital of the world and not just in the 8th century. In bimaristans, music therapy was often practiced and not just in the 8th century and it continued to flourish long after it and flourised extemely in the early-to-mid 20th century; in Egypt, where I am from, you have many, many singers, composers, oud players, actors, etc, like Abdel Halim Hafez, Farid Al-Atrash, Umm Kulthum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Asmahan, Layla Mourad, Riad El-Sonbati, Mohamed Al-Qasabgi and others and many belly dancers like Tahia Carioca, Naima Akef, Samia Gamal and others. In fact, Egyptian cinema was the 3rd largest in the world in the 50s. And music still flourishes in Egypt and in a lot of the Islamicate World. Islam's relationship with Islam is much, much more complicated than that. I recommend you read On Music and Singing - Fatwa by Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Not to mention that there are many expressions of Islam. For example, in Sufism music is used as a form of worship and as a tool to get closer to God. Whether it is haram or not in some expressions of Islam doesn't change the fact that music flourished extemely in the Islamicate World. Ziryab, who was a polymath, composer and poet, came from Baghdad to Al-Andalus where he composed a 24 nubas, a nuba is an hour-long suite of music. So each hour of the day has music playing. Yes, so music is playing 24 hours in Al-Andalus. They also played many other types of music. From Muwashahat to Zajal to improvise music which is central to Islamicate World music. Saif al-din al-Urmawi al-Baghdadi wrote Kitab al-Adwar fi al-Musiqa in the 13th century which is a treatise on the theory of music, including division of frets, ratio of intervals, consonance and dissonance, cycles, rhythmic and melodic modes, and the 5-string oud. Fun fact, he was spared by the Mongols when they sacked Baghdad because they loved his music. The bimaristans in the Islamicate World (proper hospitals for treatment, which the equivalent of didn't exist in Catholic Europe at the time) often had music therapy. And of course like I mentioned Sufis used music as a form of worship. If we go to the Ottoman Empire, music also played a very central role with Sultans composing and commissioning complex pieces.
Great explanation, remember though, oud may originate from Iran, BUT Iranians are not Arabs.
Its from Iran
No, this current one he is holding is an Arabic invention. The ancient Persian barbat and lutes in Mesopotamia were different instruments.
No it's not. It's literally from Ancient Iraq and Ancient Egypt instrumentals.
دوستان فراموش نکنید عود ساز اصیل ایرانی است و آن را بربط میخوانند و در حمله اعراب به کشور های عربی سفر کرد
Jesus christ you even play oud😂
Oud?
The arabic pronunciation is in the grave with that one
Oud in Arabic, its pronunciation goes back to the type of wood from which it is made. This is all there is to it, and the pronunciations differ from an Arab speaker to a non-Arab speaker, so you cannot say this.
The way he pronounced is how they pronounce it in English. He isn't trying to pronounce it in Arabic even though he can and did multiple times.
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Sure. Get educated. Where the ع
If he cant say the ع. Then the arabic pronoucniation is IN THE GRAVE
It actually sounds abut wired for me the you presented the Oud and you mentioned Iran and Greece!!! While you were suppose to mention the actual country’s who been using the Oud to compose fantastic music such Egypt and Iran etc !!
The best out playing period are Egyptian and the top singers and composers came out of Egypt as well , Iraq had an out master from previous generations as well…….. but Iran has nothing to do with what the Oud was made to play, period. They have a total different scale and Greece they play Oud with a Pazook similar to Turkish suz technique…..
my friend if you want to play real Oud, you have to play the old Egyptian Oud school and probably the Turkish as well cause they have a tasty techniques which they invented in their own playing…… other than those 2 isn’t Oud playing… it’s just something else I don’t even know what to call it!
is that a turkish oud?
Made in Morocco
That's a barbat. Oud is the arabic word for it.
No, it's an oud. A barbat is a different instrument with a different method of construction, different shape, different scale length, and different tuning in many cases. They also sound different.
@@jamcam9 barbats and ouds both come in different shapes and sizes. It was called barbat way before it was called an oud by Arabs. Oud is the name Arabs gave to barbat when they picked it up
@@a.s2205 my dude, that is not correct. The barbat is a Persian instrument that is the ancestor of the oud. The oud and barbat are not the same instrument. That's like saying a violin and a viola are the same nstrument but with different nanes, but they're not: they are different instruments.
@@jamcam9 what difference did they make in barbat to create the oud? It's the same instrument, just rebranded in Arabic.
@@a.s2205 Do you play the barbat? Maybe post some videos. You could even make one with an oud musician demonstrating how they are exactly the same instrument.
I listened to this on my Bluetooth speaker, and the Taliban showed up at my doorstep.
They're not arab
Bro shave. Allah told me to tell you
Hey, buy me one for my birthday/. I will be 69
You wish. Good quality ouds are pretty pricey...
Oriental not arabic. Im arab and we haven't invented any musical instruments.
You’re not an Arab 😂
Dumbest comment I have ever seen in my life. The Arabs were and are extemely musically-inclined. Also "oriental" means nothing
@@Holyhumanity you are correct. This instrument already existed, Arabs just renamed it.
@@a.s2205no, he isn't. There were instruments like the oud, but the oud itself in its current form is an Arabic invention. It is Arabs who developed it further and perfected it. Arabs similarly also advanced Middle Eastern music theory very heavily.
@@a.s2205The Iranian instrument is different. Also the oud isn't as popular in Iran as it is in Arab countries.
btw many "arabic" sounding sounds originate from ancient Greek modes and scales, same with the oud instrument originating from the ancient greek barbiton and iranian barbat
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