Does anyone/Has anyone played a lute?

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:26 am

man, i kinda want one. are they as rare as harpsichords?

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:52 am

I'd hit up a Pakistan-made one for starters. A good 10 years ago I scored my first Oud (I was on a raging Armenian cultural trip of sorts), which was made by Mideast Manufacturing and was pretty decent in construction and tone. They've got lutes too, including less-cool looking flatbacks.

LINKOLA

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:15 am

Man, that's amazing someone came up with that. I mean the whole concept of strings being amplified by a soundboard, how do you think up something like that?

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:51 pm

ultratwin wrote:I'd hit up a Pakistan-made one for starters. A good 10 years ago I scored my first Oud (I was on a raging Armenian cultural trip of sorts), which was made by Mideast Manufacturing and was pretty decent in construction and tone. They've got lutes too, including less-cool looking flatbacks.

LINKOLA

awesome link, thanks!

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:27 pm