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Anyone love Oud too?
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bluespiderweb
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Joined: Mar. 24 2017
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 RE: Anyone love Oud too? (in reply to Piwin)
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Sorry Piwin, that you can't see the video, what a shame-maybe you can do a search and find something else by him, though he didn't make many albums from what I see. I was able to watch your videos though, thank you for them, nice stuff.
Rabbit holes, ha! I can see that, but I'm a surface kind of guy, never going much below ground! Probably thanks to my ADD.
And thanks Ramzi, I did go to that maker's site-lots of nice instruments but very much above my range. But I like listening anyway, and doubt I could sound much like a real player who has knowledge of the music, where I have none, but love the vibes.
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estebanana
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RE: Anyone love Oud too? (in reply to bluespiderweb)
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I knew Hamza, he lived very close to me in Oakland. He lived in a nice building on Lake Merritt. On afternoons he took walks and I gave him a wave and a hello. He was a real gentleman.
I had dinner with him once, one of his students is a good friend of mine. Hamza, his Japanese wife, and my friend Tom and his wife all went to the movies together to see a documentary on Um Kultoum, called 'The Voice of Egypt'. After the show we retired to a table in a restaurant in Berkeley that had Egyptian food...whatever, and a belly dancer who performed to music blasting out of a boom box. Hamza's wife registered displeasure, but Tom leaned in to me and said Hamza finds this amusing.
He showed us how to do palmas from his area in Sudan, I compared them to flamenco palmas and showed him an alta. His wife disapproved. Dumb gaijin. But the best part was he told stories about seeing Um Koultum back in Egypt.
There was a good article in an old Horizon Magazine about the Aswan Dam covering up the old monuments in that valley they flooded. I have a copy of it that I brought to Japan. Hamza was also a pretty good painter. I went to the reception of his last show at his gallery in Berkeley. I think that was the last time I saw him before he died. I wish I would have known him as well as Tom, I remember Hamza fondly. Hamza taught Tom to play a great deal of his music. Tom can play Water Wheel, Hamza's long hypnotic piece about the villages he knew that are now under the water held by the Aswan Dam
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though there are a lot of arabic oud players that play the electric oud. I personally don't like its sound though, I don't like piezo pickups without a sound box supporting the air resonance. 
