… the only known Damascus-made oud by the Qudmany family …
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India to Kuwait
… an oud that crossed the Arabian Sea …
Syrian brothers in Istanbul
The movements of Damascene luthiery …
An oud in layers
All woods are linked to times and places…
Why do we collect?
In 1974 the Italian writer Italo Calvino wrote an essay called ‘Collection of Sand…
Alexandria to Brussels, 1879
By Rachel Beckles Willson There’s a bit of a mystery surrounding this oud. Victor Mahillon, curator of the Museum of Musical Instruments at the Brussels Conservatoire, acquired it from Alexandria in 1879. Saskia Willaert, curator of African Collections at the museum, has gathered sources relating to the purchase, and from these we learn that Mahillon…
Oud of a luthiery student
By Karim Othman Hassan We know nothing of Mustafa, the maker of this oud, apart from the fact that he was studying carpentry or instrument making. So Stockholm’s Swedish Museum of Performing Arts (Scenkonstmuseet) is home to the instrument of an intermediate-level student. Why might the instrument be significant? Part of the answer lies in…
Adana to Stockholm
… who was Mustafa?
Our oldest Nahat
… by Yousif Nahat, of Damascus …
Damascus to London c.1880
… our oldest Nahat…
Oudmigrations launch concert
We are marking the opening of Oudmigrations with a concert at one of London’s most beautiful private concert salons, Music at 22 Mansfield Street. Please join us to hear the oud in multiple combinations and repertories, and enjoy this breath-taking Adam style house while you listen. 13 April 2016, 19.30 (welcome drinks served from 19.00)….
The journeys of ouds
We think the oldest surviving ouds are in Europe, preserved as a result of French, Belgian and English research and collecting. Their journeys shadow the routes of imperialist acquisition. But ouds have long been associated with journeys. And as time moves on towards the end of the 19th century, others ouds reveal the travels of musicians…