Meanings (ES + gloss)
laúd árabe • ud
A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin.
Common throughout the Arab and Persian world, the oud is a fretless short-neck lute with a pear-shaped, flat top, rounded back, and a peghead characteristically bent backwards at a…
Oriental music is chiefly unrhythmical [...]. It is mostly rendered by a solo voice with accompaniment of the Ud, a kind of lyre or mandolin, or Kanun, resembling a guitar.
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