oud, stringed musical instrument popular in medieval and modern day Islamic music. It's the mother or father of the ecu lute. The oud includes a deep pear-formed body, a fretless fingerboard, and a relatively shorter neck and rather much less acutely bent-back again pegbox than the ecu lute.
is that they are all played by western Christian musicians. Two of such ouds are at the head of this text, the third is under.
Nobody appreciates for sure how significantly the oud dates back again, and whether its origins are in Persia, Arabia, or in other places. It belongs to what we may