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• - Basic information about the oud and Ottoman music, including tuning systems, modes, hand positions, and exercises.
  
• - An Arabic oud website with pictures, RealAudio and MP3 samples of compositions and taqsims, discussion forum, and links to other oud information.
  
• - An informative oud site for beginner players, as well as anyone else interested in ouds.
  
• - Hellenic Communication Service profile of Kyvelos, oud maker based in Boston, Mass.
  
• - Everything you want to know about the Middle-Eastern lute, oud (sometimes spelled as ud).
  
• - Information on Greek ouds and playing traditions, with Windows Media samples of taksims. In English and Greek.
  
• - The early history of the oud, leading up to the development of the European lute.
  
• - Article on the history of Armenian oud making.
  
• - A journal of Jameel Abraham's experiments with making Turkish-style ouds. Includes step-by-step pictures and description.
  
• - About this Turkish oud maker whose shop is located in Thessaloniki, Greece. Includes information on the mathematical formulas for calculating oud brace resonances. In Turkish and English.
  
• - This article, by D. Glenn Arthur Jr., is geared for guitarists. Includes some oud pictures.
  
• - Article on the Middle-Eastern oud: its history, tuning methods, and playing techniques.
  
• - Brief history of the instrument and playing instructions.
  
• - Luthier who specializes in ouds, lavtas, and sazes. Based in Athens, Greece. Includes pictures and sound files of his instruments.
  
• - Short introduction, listing some tunings and links.
  
• - Links to oud players, makers, information sites, and vendors.
  
• - Information on oud repair and construction.
  
• - Extensive introduction to playing the makams (maqams) on the oud, by David Parfitt. Contains musical notation of many popular makams, both in Arabic and Turkish systems.