Guitar with Oud neck by Stepan Frounjian

this is my latest experiment, that I made an Oud lute neck for my electric guitar so I can play Arabic and other scales with quarter tone.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• oud
• guitar
• arabic
• armenian
• middleeastern
• quarter
• tone

[clayton5150]

do these scales sound pleasing to somone who grew up listining them. and do middle easturn people find westurn scales not pleasing?

[usdaben]

the western music is very much loved in the middle east, in fact I only played western music when I was younger, but this is our roots it's always welcome to our ears, we like both styles with respect to each other.

[iggytse]

Is there any reason why you couldn't just knock out the frets of the guitar neck, and fill the gaps with wood filler and get the same result?

[usdaben]

of course there is a reason, it will work the way you asked but it's not gonna have the same same distance from the bridge to the neck like an Oud , you will have to tune it like a guitar, my way you can tune it like an Oud.

[sisetsi]

why don't you play "Sealed with a Kiss" like you used to sing in Armenian at Hye Art. lol

[usdaben]

Garooooooo you must be the one youre the only one that knows the sealed with a kiss loooool

send me your e-mail so we can talk

[IranahyeNotVTEC]

start a business, you can sell this...unless its already out there. great job

[fetallica1]

awesome idea

[gageman70]

hey man this thing rocks, I am going to try this except with a cigar box and make it acoustic, but what is the measurement from the nut to the bridge?

[mirabann]

nice music

[liermam]

i much prefer the sound of steel guitar strings in your electric oud as opposed to the sound of nylon strings on an actual electric oud.

good work.

[crunkridge]

I did the same thing with my strat a couple of years ago. I don't have the skills to make my own neck, so I bought one from a custom mail order shop & had them leave the frets off. It's a full stratocaster scale (~ 25.5 inches or 65cm) which I like.

I worked out string gauges that work for the "classical" tuning.

Active pickups really gave the volume and sustain a boost. With a bit of overdrive you get great sustain and glissandos, so it play can a clarinet as well as a cümbüş line.

[Modes9]

It ends up sounding like an electric oud...which is not necessarily a bad thing!

[Slashe50]

I want to do this with my cheapo guitar.

[SteelSkin667]

Nice electric oud. Sounds lovely. :)