An Unbiased View of MUSIC OUD
oud, stringed musical instrument well known in medieval and modern-day Islamic music. It is the father or mother of the ecu lute. The oud has a deep pear-shaped human body, a fretless fingerboard, and a relatively shorter neck and rather less acutely bent-back pegbox than the eu lute.Alfonso X, “The Intelligent”, 1221-1284, was King of Castile