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hey brandon if you know anyone who is looking for an authenic sax please let me know...our church just got a....john coltrane sax donated to us a few weeks ago.
I always wondered what would happen to my first ever guitar, I had been teaching my stepbrother with it. My sister ended up sitting on it breaking the neck 😂
Honestly, I'd love to see Brandon give the Banjo a try! The instrument is lovely when played in classical style, and can come in fretless versions to add that sound he likes with the oud!
@@-jank-willson Not all of them. There are also fretless mountain banjos which are considerably larger pitched than a minstrel banjo. If you’re interested in checking historical banjos Clifton Hicks is a great channel to check out.
I live in one of the highest concentrations of Iraqi emigrants in eastern San Diego county and ouds are on Craig's List all the time - even electric ouds. I've seen them being performed around town.
This reminds me, I need to check on the repair shop that has my 1930s ukelele. Everything else I own is all percussion instruments that I have built myself. Plus a lyre that is still in progress.
I've been learning Recuerdos de la Alhambra in my free time, and I've felt pretty good about it. Turns out I'd forgotten what it sounds like at tempo. Still a lot of practice to do!
The some descendants of the Wurlitzer family lived in Hillsborough, CA. I met one of the granddaughters. She had some of the old instruments, and the old Jukebox, and Organ.
The qanun reminds me of a Japanese koto. It's another tableharp-type instrument, with singular strings instead of courses. You actually tune the koto by moving the bridge saddles closer or further away from the playing area rather than using tuning pegs. You can add vibrato and microtones by bending behind the bridge saddle, similar to a country bend on an electric guitar.
Very nice collection, Brandon! I have some suggestions for the future videos and new collection items. You definitely need to try some Ukrainian folk instruments: - Kobza - similar to the oud but with additional treble strings and smaller body. Can be fretted or fretless. - Torban - something like a lute with additional basses and trebles. Very rare instrument but sounds very nice. - Bandura - it is like a mix of zither and lute. Probably the most famous and easy to find Ukrainian instrument. Sound of it is incredibly beautiful. But the difficulty to play and tune is the same as with the qanun ))
Like you, I started the oud coming from a guitar background, and I have been learning it with a pro for a while. Right from the bat, your intonation is pretty good. You also seem to have dropped the habit that guitar players have of applying some strength with the thumb on the back of the arm. What I think would have you improve really fast is to pay attention to the way you are holding the risha (currently , you hold it as a guitar pick) and work on your posture, so you feel really comfortable. For a guitarist of your level, the rest will come naturally and easily. And I agree: - it is so pleasurable and fun to play the oud!
I love the fact that during the oud the song in the background is a song from my grandpa's place of birth called "Apo kseno topo" (απο ξενω τοπο). Marvelous video, lovely instruments💚
These instruments are beautiful! I would like to see you performing on turkish instrument 'Bağlama' it is an Oud-like instrument. I think you would like it.
The qanun-قانون is one of the most beautiful instruments ever, its very integrated in the Arabic music in middle east, greatest arab singers had the qanun behind them matching their voices. Its always the qanun that starts an arabic song.
This is so exciting to see -I am especially keen to see and hear you highlight the oud and qanun. Thank you for all the bliss you share here and on your Patreon channel.
Wurlitzer has an interesting history. He made instruments for the U.S. Government during the civil war and Spanish American war. He then went on to make piano's and eventually ended up making some of the best jukeboxes in the world.
I also have a bowl back mandolin. They have such an amazing sound and you can find them used in various states. They’re made by US, Japan, and Germany. It has such an amazing deep sound which a standard modern mandolin cannot produce.
You should get a Selmer-Maccaferri guitar, you know, the kind they use for gypsy jazz. You can employ the right hand technique you've learned from the Oud, and those things will project single note melodies like no other acoustic guitar.
please also try Indian instruments such as the sitar, veena, santoor etc...would love to see you play some of them and give us plenty of knowledge about them
Hey Brandon! Why don't you do some covers of classical as well as pop or rock music? I'm a great fan of yours. You're the best guitarist I've ever seen and the most beautiful one too ❤️❤️❤️
Wurlitzer resold and imported instruments by makers all over the world. Be interesting to know if there's a way to find out who actually did make the bowlback mando. Love the look of it.
I also prefer shorter scale (electric) guitars and basses, it’s more comfortable not having to stretch for notes, though some complain the bass low E sounds different (the overtones are definitely not the same, but I use flatwound strings anyway so the low E doesn’t sound different to me.)
if they made a mechanism for the arch lute where you could alter the bass strings by a semitone on the fly, kinda like on a harp, that would make it a useful modern instrument
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Cool to hear you play an oud piece by Anouar Brahem... the only oud player I'm aware of; I enjoy his ECM recording Blue Maqams with jazz musicians Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, and Django Bates.
9:50 this music goes so deep and is so peaceful and lovely, although it sounds so sad and a bit tragic (i dont know, if i translated it correct). It seems, that i could breath the music (no i never took drugs in my life🤣♥️♥️)
You need to get a banjitar. It's a guitar with a banjo body. It's a 6 string banjo with the same tuning as a guitar. Once you get a banjo you'll never go back. It's way louder than a guitar. The banjo has been around since the 1600's. You can collect early banjos from the 1700's and stuff. I mastered the classical guitar but the problem is the guitar isn't a very loud instrument. So the banjo fixed that problem. So now I play mostly the banjo. 🪕
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! It was exceptional, and I can’t wait to see the next. I’m curious to know how you store your instruments?
Youssef Nassif plays his qanun so delicately and beautifully. I noticed the levers (pitch-benders) up near the tuning head. I notice his aluminum rings were wider. I'm wondering whether the width of the band adds to the stiffness or flexibility of the plectrum. A Wonderful instrument!
Some amazing instruments there! I love that Oud! I follow a guy on Instagram who repairs them in his native country, and he informed me that Oud means Wood! The archlute is bonkers, but those bass notes are lush! Onto part 2?
Fun fact. The backing track for when he brings up the Oud is the track Boney M used to get their beat/rhythm for Rasputin. (i believe Brandon played it live(partially) in the History of Guitar video with Rob Scallon)
