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Post by PaulKay on Feb 21, 2024 10:09:32 GMT -5
What is cool about this instrument is the scales they make with 1/2 flats. The benefits of being a fretless instrument.
I like the all 4ths tuning. While you can do that tuning on a guitar, you still can't make those scales without a bended note being a scale tone.
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Post by Marshall on Feb 21, 2024 10:24:31 GMT -5
Oooh, dude.
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Post by dradtke on Feb 21, 2024 11:00:16 GMT -5
I don't know. Sounds a little oud to me.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Feb 21, 2024 15:17:56 GMT -5
The Oud is too odd for me.
Mike
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Post by PaulKay on Feb 21, 2024 17:17:09 GMT -5
But it does make Oud-dles of good sounds.
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Post by drlj on Feb 21, 2024 18:07:43 GMT -5
I won a Glissantar quite a few years ago, along with two other Godin guitars, from AG. It was an 11 string fretless guitar-ish version of an Oud. I sold it to a professional Oud player in Boston that the poster Cranky Yankee put me in touch with. I could not make heads nor tails of it.
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Post by John B on Feb 22, 2024 6:10:35 GMT -5
I think you mis-punctuated, Marshall. I think it should be “Ooohd, ude.” |
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Post by PaulKay on Feb 22, 2024 9:30:52 GMT -5
I won a Glissantar quite a few years ago, along with two other Godin guitars, from AG. It was an 11 string fretless guitar-ish version of an Oud. I sold it to a professional Oud player in Boston that the poster Cranky Yankee put me in touch with. I could not make heads nor tails of it. I didn’t know you had won one of those. They are an interesting Godin design. I wouldn’t want one, but for those who play them, they are really nice. |
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Post by drlj on Feb 22, 2024 9:41:51 GMT -5
I won a Glissantar quite a few years ago, along with two other Godin guitars, from AG. It was an 11 string fretless guitar-ish version of an Oud. I sold it to a professional Oud player in Boston that the poster Cranky Yankee put me in touch with. I could not make heads nor tails of it. I didn’t know you had won one of those. They are an interesting Godin design. I wouldn’t want one, but for those who play them, they are really nice. I entered one of the AG monthly contests. I won the Glissantar, a Godin Multiac nylon, and a small body Seagull. Plus, I got 12 sets of strings for the Glissantar, cases, etc. I sold all of them to get my HD-28 so it was 2001 or 2002. I would like to have the Multiac now but I never regretted getting the Glissantar into the hands of someone who could actually play it. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Feb 22, 2024 12:49:24 GMT -5
At the risk of revealing my scant knowledge regarding modalities, isn't that kind of what those two are talking about?
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Post by Dub on Feb 22, 2024 15:50:49 GMT -5
I’ve been lucky to attend countless Lebanese dances and weddings where the oud was a prominent part of the dabke band. In Cedar Rapids, bands would often be brought in from Detroit where there is a large Lebanese population. I loved dabke and music that drives the dance. A local craftsman/artist even started making ouds though I’ve never seen one up close.
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Post by PaulKay on Feb 22, 2024 18:38:03 GMT -5
At the risk of revealing my scant knowledge regarding modalities, isn't that kind of what those two are talking about? I think so. They had a scales with different starting notes, but the same 1/2 flats. Basically modes as guitar players think of them |
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Post by Dub on Feb 22, 2024 19:22:30 GMT -5
At the risk of revealing my scant knowledge regarding modalities, isn't that kind of what those two are talking about? I think so. They had a scales with different starting notes, but the same 1/2 flats. Basically modes as guitar players think of them Arabic music uses quarter tones as a natural part of a scale. It’s beautiful to hear it sung. In the Antiochian Church ( Eastern Orthodox) it’s wonderful to hear a skilled chanter “read” the Gospel in Arabic. The tones are just wonderful. |
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Post by Dub on Feb 23, 2024 16:34:20 GMT -5
Now for something completely [not too] different.
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