CELTIC-BREIZH for CITTERN or BOUZOUKI. (BREST is a port in BRITTANY). The tuning is as follows: DGCF. But it is simply a tone below the EADG typically used. The reason for this tuning is to gain a tonality approaching the MANDOCELLO.
The oud consists of a large soundbox connected to a short neck, distinguishing it from the long-necked lute family (tanbur, saz, baglâma, setar, tar). The body has a pear shape (the modern ones manufactured in Egypt accentuate this even more). Arabic tuning: D G A d g c
Old English lute tuning: A D G b e a
Invented early in the 20th century by Pannalal Ghosh; a single-jointed, thin-walled bamboo tuned to an untempered chromatic scale...Sachdev gets up to 3 octaves via a 7th finger hole.
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A place to buy decent djembes, goatskins, shells, and a fine metal gripper-puller thingie that saves your hands when pulling ropes on your "mali weave." Some good links, too.
Moody Blues in their early, early R&B days, before they got cosmic and astral and spaced out. First heard this when I was 15. Not sick of it yet...eons later. Classic rhythm & blues (cover).