Vancouver oud players, musicians, and dancers

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Gord Grdina

http://www.gordongrdina.com/PHOTOS.html

Hazem Matar

Emad Armoush

http://www.emadarmoush.com/

Prussin employee

Hossein Behroozinia

Jack Haas

Serwan Yamolky

http://www.serwanyamolky.com/

Other insruments:

Yu-Chen Wang, guzheng

Ali Razmi, setar, tar

dancers:

Tanya Evanson, whirling dervish

http://mothertonguemedia.com/info_bio.html

oud collections

http://www.veyselmuzik.com/tr/index.php (Turkey)

http://www.varjouds.com/index.html (Armenia)

Alfaraby and Adel Salemeh from mikeouds forum

Syria

You can take a look in Shaalan district in Damascus.
For exemple Nahawand music shop, it is a small shop from which I lost the phone number, but you may ask in Shaalan.
Shaalan is a street giving on El Abed street. El abed an avenuea giving on Sabaa Bahrat square, a big one downtown.
Good research Hakim!

The workshop is near the Al-Hamadaniah Stadium‎

http://www.oudsukar.com Mobail: 094411773 Tel Workshop:
00963 21 5759240 Telefax 00963 21 5553297
Aleppo Salah El Din near the sport city.

Morocco

http://www.youtube.com/khalilouuu

Said Chraibi

1. Oud Websites

Mike's Oud Website
A beautifully designed site dedicated to Arabic ouds. Created and maintained by Mike Malek, it features an Oud Forum for discussion of all aspects of the oud and a fantastic set of online instructional videos.

Oud Cafe
A really comprehensive website on the Turkish style of oud playing, created by Mavrothis Kontanis. The site features lessons on the most common Turkish makamlar, including sheet music of a well-known composition in each makam accompanied by audio files.

Iranian Oud
A website devoted to the history and performance of oud in Iran, and designed by Majid Yahyanejad. There is detailed information on three generations of Iranian oud players with accompanying sound files. Also, numerous beautiful photos showing historical ouds and oud makers at work in their workshops.

Brian Punka's Oud Page
An excellent general oud site with info on technique, theory and more. Brian is currently in the process of expanding the music theory section of his site, so look out for an update in the near future!

Nikos Dimitriadis's Oud Website
Great background info on all aspects of the oud, including audio files of taksims played by Nikos himself.

Oud Home Page
One of the first oud websites, with information on the history of the oud, CDs of oud music as well as a huge list of oud-related links.

Oud Web
A comprehensive list of oud-related links that is updated regularly.

Pablo's Oud Page
A South American web site with loads of useful information which is always being updated. Sound clips too!

Ronny Andersson's Iraqi Oud Website
A site dedicated to the Bashir-style oud, with info on Iraqi oud makers and some great oud photos.

Armenian Oud Makers
A site devoted to Armenian oud makers past and present, with lots of information and photos - created by Dr Jonathan Varjabedian.

Andy Kasparian's Oud Page
Features several ouds that Andy made himself, together with a nice list of oud-related links.

'The Oud: Construction and Repair' - book by Richard Hankey (Dr. Oud)
Everything you need to know about building your own oud!

Jameel Abraham's Oud Construction
A website giving details of an oud made using Richard Hankey's book.

'Ouds' by David Brown
A detailed article on oud history, tuning, technique etc.

Introduction to the Oud for Guitarists
Written in a down-to-earth style with plenty of good advice for anyone making the transition from guitar to oud.

 
2. Music Theory and Practice

General

Makam
A nice introduction to the makam/maqam system in Middle Eastern music.

Jas's Middle Eastern Rhythms FAQ
A large resource for percussionists, including sound samples!

Arabic music

Arabic Maqam World
A beautiful new site on the theory of Arabic maqamat, with sound clips for each maqam.

Metric Modes (IQA'AT) & Melodic Modes (MAQAMAT)
An excellent page, including audio and video clips of the principal maqamat and iqa'at being played by Ali Jihad Racy on oud and Souhail Kaspar on percussion.

Herman Rechberger's Home Page
Online version of detailed book on Arabic rhythms.

Arabic Music Internet Reference (AMIR)
An enormous database of Arab artists, albums, etc.

Turkish music

Turkmusikisi.com
A huge resource for sheet music from the great Turkish composers - you need to register first, but the material is free to download (In Turkish).

Troia Nova
This is a London-based group that performs Turkish and Greek music using traditional instruments such as oud, laouto, tanbur, saz and Cretan lyra.

Persian music

Peyman Nasehpour
A detailed site on Persian drumming including tombak and daf.

 
3. Artists

http://www.bassemrizk.com/music.html

Ghassan Abbasi

Ziad El Ahmadie

Tarik Banzi

Munir Bashir

Omar Bashir

Hossein Behroozinia

John Berberian

Asim al-Chalabi

Hamza el-Din

Baruch Eitan

Drazen Franolic

Attab Haddad

Rahim al-Haj

Ali Hassan

Saif Karomi

Driss el-Maloumi

Ahmed Mukhtar

Majid Nazempour

Mehmet Polat

Ziad Rajab

Thierry 'Titi' Robin

Husain Sabsaby

Haytham Safia - Holland

Adel Salameh

Kamil Shajrawi

Naseer Shamma

Joseph Tawadros

Dann Torres (Knossos)

Alekos Vretos

 
4. Oud Makers

Daoud & Bahij Arbach (Canada)

Dincer Dalkilic (USA/Turkey)

Haluk Eraydin (Turkey)

Faik Mohammad Fadel (Iraq)

Yaroub Mohammad Fadel (Tunisia)

Nazih Ghadban (Lebanon)

Hank Levin - MusiCaravan (USA)

Michael Moussa (UK)

Viken Najarian (USA)

Dimitris Rapakousios (Greece)

Cengiz Sarikus (Turkey)

Tasos Theodorakis (Greece)

Faruk Turunz (Turkey)

 
5. Online CD Stores

Maqam Music
An excellent site for buying oud CDs as well as other Middle Eastern music, DVDs, books and instruments.

Rashid Music Sales
Another great place to find oud CDs, regularly updated with new stock.

Fnac.com
An online CD store based in France with some particularly hard to find recordings (in French).

Alapage.com
Another online CD store based in France (in French).

 
6. Miscellaneous Links

www.kanuns.com
Comprehensive site by John Habib covering all aspects of the kanun.

Medimuses Project - Music of the Mediterranean
Website of the organisers of the International Oud Meeting 2002 in Thessaloniki, Greece, as well as forthcoming events relating to other instruments.

Atlas of Plucked Instruments
An encyclopaedia of all the world's plucked instruments, compiled by Henny de Bruin, and featuring numerous photos of instruments from Henny's own collection.

Harel Shachal
New York-based musician who plays Turkish clarinet, ney, zurna and saxophone.

EthnoSuperLounge
A network of musicians from Australia, Japan and India who come together to create cross-cultural music.

British Museum 'Arabesque' events
Includes videos of an interview with and performance by the Iraqi oud player Ahmed Mukhtar.

Plain Sud
Contemporary jazz/oriental ensemble featuring Tunisian oudist Khaled Ben Yahia.

Arab Instruments
Online store that sells a wide range of Middle Eastern instruments.

Maryam Moghaddam
Beautiful customised hard and soft instrument cases.

Early Folk Strings
Specialising in hard to find early music instrument strings and strings for ethnic instruments.

Online Oud Tuner
Excellent resource with both Arabic and Turkish tunings for various string configurations.

Here's a list of "famous" oud players:
 

In Canada

Dikran Richard Sarookanian (of Armenian descent) 
Gordon Grdina 
Sean Goharzadeh 
Filis Ann Ozkurdum 
 

In Greece:

Tsiamoulis Christos 
Michalis Tsouganakis 
Periklis Tsoukalas 
Alekos K. Vretos [4] 
Haig Yazdjian (Armenian descent) 
Giorgos Alevizos [5] 
Nikos Saragoudas 
Nikos Dimitriadis 
Vasilis Kasouras 
 

In Egypt:

Riyad al-Sunbati 
Hazem Shaheen (1978-) 
Farid Al Attrach (1915-1974) 
Mohammed Abdel Wahab (1907-1991) 
Mohamed El Asabgi (1892-1966) 
Sayed Darwish (1892-1923) 
Sheikh Imam (1918-1995) 
 

In Iran:

Hossein Behroozinia (1962-) 
Arsalan Kamkar (1960-) 
Mansour Nariman (1938-) 
Mohammad Delnavazi (1954-) 
Mohammad Firoozi (1957-) 
Ahad Goharzadeh (1958-?) 
Jamal Jahanshad (1948-) 
Yousef Kamoosi (1902-1987) 
Mohammad Khansarian (1948-) 
Hasan Manoochehri (1934-) 
Shahram Mirjalali (1959-) 
Akbar Mohseni (1911-1995) 
Abdulvahab Shahidi (1921-) 
Nasrollah Zarrinpanjeh (1906-1982) 
 

In Iraq:

Salman Shukur 
Rahim Al Haj 
Jamil Bashir 
Munir Bashir (Iraq/Hungary) 
Ahmed Mukhtar (Iraq/London) 
Naseer Shamma 
Ali Alemaam 
Ghanim Haddad 
Asim Al-Chalabi (Iraq/Austria) 
Salim Al-Nur (Iraq/Israel) 
Fawzy Al-Aiedy (Iraq/France) 
Mohammed Saleh Lelo (Iraq/Qatar) 
Salim Abd Al-Karim 
Ali Hassan 
Ali al-Imam 
Ruhi Al-Kamash 
 

In Kuwait:

Ibrahim Tami (Kuwait) 
Bader Hamdan (Kuwait) 
Hamad Bo Resli (Kuwait) 
Jarah Al Hadari (Kuwait) 
Fozi Al Lenqawi (Kuwait) 
Salman Al Ammari (Kuwait) 
Salah Hamad Khalifah (Kuwait) 
Yousef Al Motref (Kuwait) 
 

In Lebanon:

Wadih el Safi 
Rabih Abou-Khalil 
Marcel Khalife 
Charbel Rouhana 
Bassem Rizk 
Fouad Harraka (Lebanon/Australia) 
George Abyad (Lebanon/Syria) 
Abdul Salam Kheir 
Mazen Fouad Salha 
Ziad El Ahmadie 
 

In Morocco:

Tarik Banzi 
Ahmed El Bidaoui 
Said Chraybi 
Driss El Maloumi 
Armand Sabach 
 

In Palestine:

Le trio Joubran 
Simon Shaheen 
Ahmad Al-Khatib 
Issa Boulos [6] 
Nizar Rohana 
Samer Totah [7] 
Adel Salameh 
Kamilya Jubran 
Haytham Safia (Palestine/Netherlands) 
 

In Saudi Arabia:

Al-sharif Mohyi-aldain bin ali haidar pacha(Hejaz/Saudi Arabia) 
Mohammed ali Al-Sindi 
Tariq Abdul-Hakeem 
Omar Kadars 
Fawzi Mahsoon 
Abadi al-Johar 
Talal Maddah 
Ghazi Ali 
Bashir Shannan 
Khalid Abdulrahman 
 

In Somalia:

Hudaydi 
Omar Dhuule 
Hanuuniye 
 

In Sudan:

Mustafa Said Ahmed (Sudan) 
Mohamed Al Amin (Sudan) 
 

In Syria:

Alsiadi [8] (Syria/USA) 
Muhammad Qadri Dalal 
Abolrahman Jabakjl 
Omar Naqishbandi 
Afif Taian 
 

In Tunisia:

Anouar Brahem 
Amine-Hamza M'RAIHI 
Dhafer Youssef 
Ali Es-Sriti 
Khmaies Tarnen 
 

In Turkey:

Ismail Fencioglu 
Udi Yorgo Bacanos (1900-1977, also known as Georgios Mpatzanos) (ethnic Greek) 
Münir Nurettin Beken 
Necati Çelik 
Mısır'lı İbrahim Efendi (1872-1933) 
Samim Karaca 
Udi Hrant Kenkulian (1901-1978) (ethnic Armenian) 
Udi Bogos Kireciyan (ethnic Armenian) 
Ûdi Nevres Bey (1873-1937) 
Coşkun Sabah 
Cinuçen Tanrıkorur (1938-2000) 
Serif Muhiddin Targan (1892-1967) 
İlyas Tetik 
Yurdal Tokcan 
Mutlu Torun 
Gülçin Yahya 
 

In Yemen:

Abu Baker Salem 
Ali Alanisi 
Ahmed Fathy 
Ali Einaba 
Alshameeri 
Fasel Alawei 
Fuad Alkibsy 
Najiba Abdullah 
Jamil Ghanim (Jemen/Baghdad) 
In United Kingdom

Robin Williamson (1943-) 
In United States

Daron Malakian (Armenian) 
Ahmed Abdul-Malik (United States/Sudan) 
Saadoun Al-Bayati [9] (United States/Iraq) 
Hamza El Din (Egypt/Sudan/United States) 
Sandy Bull (United States) 
Rachid Halihal [10] (United States/Morocco) 
Naji Hilal [11] (United States/Lebanon) 
Naser Musa [12] (Palestine/Lebanon) 
Levent Firat (born in Turkey) [13] 
David Lindley (United States) [14] 
Gayle Ellett (United States) [15] 
Basil Samara (United States/Lebanon) 
Scott Wilson (United States) 
Mavrothi T. Kontanis (United States/Greece [16] 
Majed Abu Ajameyeh (born in Palestine) 
 

of Armenian descent: 
John Berberian 
Richard Hagopian 
Roupen Altiparmakian (United States/Greece) (born in Adana, Turkey) 
John Bilezikjian 
Ara Dinkjian 
Charles "Chick" Ganimian 
Marty Kentigian 
Haig Manoukian 
Marko Melkon (Melkon Alemsharian) (born in Izmir, Turkey) 
George Mgrdichian 
Harry Minassian 
Antranig Kzirian [17] 
Others:

Ahmad Firdaus Baragbah (Jambi/Indonesia) 
Zulkarnain Yusof (Johor/Malaysia) 
Samir Zaki (Jordan) 
Ali Bin Rogha (United Arab Emirates) 
Joseph Tawadros (Australia) 
George Farah 

http://www.turkishouds.com/

Egypt:

http://www.fathy-ameen.com/about_en.html

Maurice Shehata

Al Aseel Shop, 80 Misr & Sudan Street, Cairo

Tamer El Asmar

Tunisia

Yaroub Mohammad Fadel (Tunisia)

USA:

Amplification

I have just tried out a wireless headset mic (with boom) and temporarily mounted it on the face with double-sided tape. The results were exceptional, even at high volume. I found that placing the mic capsule about 10mm from the face, midway between the large and small soundhole gave the most pleasing results. Of course it can be mounted directly over the large sound hole, but that was a bit too "live" for my liking.

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Akg C411, which seems to be the favorite choice of many musicians in turkey inclusive the TRT orchestras..
I use it myself the last 9-10 years and i am very happy with the results.. Remember only to use a notch filter to reduce the feedback if you have to play really loud..

I'll second that, and the few times I've used one, with the matching belt-pack B29 pre-amp, I too was very happy with the sound, they work well on oud, saz, violin etc.

Wooden oud stands:

Kevin Cloud makes the wooden oud stands.
Email: kcloud@sonic.net

oud

http://www.surajmusic.com/

http://www.mikeouds.com/messageboard/

http://www.oudcafe.com/stringing_and_tuning.htm

http://www.pro.com.eg/oudtutor/details/eGStart.htm

http://www.oud.eclipse.co.uk/gallery.html

http://oudmusic.wordpress.com/

stores

Utrecht

http://www.orientalinstruments.com/

Amsterdam

Sabassi on oud forum

Ibrahim Haloubi - Montreal

http://www.mediterranean-musicshop.com/

http://arabinstruments.com/

http://www.palmyrami.com/

Cairo

http://www.araboudhouse.com/

Istanbul
Ali Nişadır http://www.udmaker.com/
Cengiz Sarıkuş http://www.veyselmuzik.com/
Faruk Türünz http://www.oudmaster.com/

http://www.veyselmuzik.com/eng/index.php

http://www.istanbuloudfestival.com/homepage

Izmir

http://www.turkishouds.com/

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Musicians: cd's yet to get

http://www.raedkhoshaba.com/

http://www.issaboulos.com/arabud.html#farhan

Joseph Tawadros

Ahmad Al Khatib

http://www.behroozinia.com/_web/homepage.html

http://www.khaledbenyahia.com/

http://www.anouarbrahem.com/

http://www.myspace.com/khaledbenyahia

http://www.myspace.com/eliasnardi

http://www.youtube.com/khalilouuu

random

http://www.iraqiart.com/

http://www.surajmusic.com/

Cases:

http://oud-case.com/