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Armenian Ouds


Jonathan

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I have a relatively new website:

www.Varjouds.com

I am trying to document every significant Armenian oud maker of the past 200 or so years.  If anybody has any additions from what I have there (on  the second page in particular), please let me know.

Thanks a lot.

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good Start :)

 

Add Viken Najarian - > http://www.oud.net his oud's are one of the best, if not the best at this moment

 

i will sedn you some Pics of Oud's made in Armenia Yerevan - did have 4 or 5 of them in resent years

 

 

MOvses

duduk.com :ap:

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good Start :)

 

Add Viken Najarian - > http://www.oud.net his  oud's are one of  the best,  if not the best at this  moment

 

i will sedn you some Pics of Oud's  made in Armenia Yerevan - did  have 4 or 5 of them in resent years

MOvses

duduk.com :ap:

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Viken is on there already, as is Dikran Najarian. I would love to see the pics of the ouds from Armenia, with, if possible, the names of the makers. Thanks a lot.

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Just some facts about UD

 

In addition to and in relations to UD, UD was introduces in 13th century by Moors into Spain and thus gave a way and the influence to the berth of the guitar, until 18th century guitar was prohibited of playing around and among aristocracy in Spain, like guitar, UD had many influences among string instruments.

UD is known to be the oldest string instrument

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ok  i have  found one mor  for you ]

Need an Oud from Armenia - contact Mr. Stepan Payaslyan

http://www.stpeterarmenianchurch.org/photos/hayastan/week7/hayastan1.jpg

 

http://www.stpeterarmenianchurch.org/photos/

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Why won't it let me look at the pictures? :huh:

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MosJan, thanks a lot. I never heard of him, but I wrote to the guy that posted the photo to see if I can find out more. I am not sure from the caption if Payaslyan builds ouds, or just sells them, but hopefully I will know soon.

A cool pic.

If anybody else has any suggestions, I would be grateful for them. I think the oud is one of those instruments that, unfortunately, is seen by many as being not really an Armenian instrument. Still, some of the greatest ouds of all time were built by Armenians, and some of the greatest players of this instrument were Armenian.

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