A child's size oud

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Jo Dusepo
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A child's size oud

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This was for a customer in the USA who wanted an oud suitable for their 10-year-old to learn on. Scale length of 45cm.
Here's the finished instrument:
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Here's a sound/video sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFxPW_sELQ0
And here's some photos taken during the construction process:
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Clay Schaeffer
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Very Nice!
I had an old oud that had a non-wood rose (early plastic? glue coated parchment?) added to the back side of the soundboard rather than an integral one. Were you going to do that with this one?
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Clay Schaeffer wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 1:11 pm Very Nice!
I had an old oud that had a non-wood rose (early plastic? glue coated parchment?) added to the back side of the soundboard rather than an integral one. Were you going to do that with this one?
I left this one with open soundholes, because I prefer that sound and it's designed for a child, so might get knocked around a bit in the future.
I have put rosettes in some of my ouds, but I do prefer the more open sound.
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Christ Kacoyannakis
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Re: A child's size oud

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Awesome!
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