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An instrument of northern Africa and southwest Asia resembling a lute.

noun - a stringed instrument of northern Africa

OUD - The oud (Arabic: ) is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of instruments) w...

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A musical instrument of northern Africa and southwest Asia resembling a lute.
a musical instrument that has a pear-shaped body with a round back, a short neck, and strings that are played with the fingers, traditionally used in, for example, North African and Middle Eastern music
A form of lute or mandolin played principally in Arab countries.
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Oud, Zinder, NIGER
Oud description
The oud (Arabic: ) is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of instruments) with 11 or 13 strings grouped in 5 or 6 courses, commonly used in Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian, Lebanese, Iraqi, Arabian, Jewish, Persian, Greek, Armenian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, North African (Chaabi, Classical, and Spanish Andalusian), Somali, and various other forms of Middle Eastern and North African music.
* In the first centuries of (pre-Islamic) Arabian civilisation, the oud had 4 courses (one string per course double-strings came later) only, tuned in successive fourths. These were called (for the lowest in pitch) the Bamm, then came (higher to highest in pitch) the Mathn, the Mathlath and the Zr. A fifth string (highest in pitch, lowest in its positioning in relation to other strings), called d ("sharp"), was sometimes added for theoretical purposes, generally to complement the double octave.
* In Pre-Islamic Arabia and Mesopotamia, o
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