… to live a professional life as a performer in Iran is quite a story!
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The Oud at the Junction of the Nile
The Second Festival for the Oud in Khartoum, Sudan
Oud of a virtuoso
… an instrument belonging to Jamil Bashir …
Nostalgia and the female oud player
How much have women shaped the world of the oud?
Salman Shukur’s oud
…a relationship between player and instrument could last after the player himself passed on…
The oud as a luxury toy
By Rachel Beckles Willson When in 2006 Ritter Instruments made an oud in its ‘Royal’ series that sold at auction for $620,000, it pushed the so-called King of Arab instruments into new territory. The price was partly a result of its materials, but wood was not the deciding component. Rather, it was the 103-carat black…
Egyptian Ouds from 1800 to the 1930s
By Tarek Abdallah In the period 1800-1895, written and iconographic sources relating to Egyptian musical instruments describe one predominant model of oud, namely the seven-course instrument known appropriately as al-‘ūd as-Sab‘āwī. However, as discussed elsewhere on Oudmigrations, of the two 19th-century ouds that travelled from Alexandria to Brussels, one has only six courses, and a…
Instrument collections and their stories
… collections are memories of peoples, each with their own traditions and languages …
Nur al-Din and the green satin bag
What lies within…?
Oudmigrations launch concert
Memories of a celebration…
Why do we collect?
In 1974 the Italian writer Italo Calvino wrote an essay called ‘Collection of Sand…
About
Oudmigrations is an archived web resource dedicated to the journeys of ouds, their histories, and the stories attached to their makers, players, and owners. It was founded and led by Professor Rachel Beckles Willson in 2016, as part of her Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust 2015-2018. When launched in April 2016, Oudmigrations was a…