This is really really good! Can anyone tell me how this particular instrument is when compared to an Oud? Is the Oud played by more people, or is it the other way around? Are those frets I see?
played similarly to the Oud, if you know Oud you'd be able to play Laouto and vice versa. I think Oud is more common, cause its played by Turks, Arabs and Greeks while laouto can only be found in Greece And yes its fretted ruclips.net/video/W6V4OHTmCo0/видео.html here are some more songs for you to get to know the instrument
The oud and laouto are entirely different tunings, entirely different instruments despite the similarities in the body. The laouto is fretted, oud is fretless. Laouto has a reentrant tuning similar to the uke, tuned Cc Gg Dd aa (looking at face, left to right). The lowest pitch string is the Gg course, the Cc is just one step below the Dd in the same range. Oud is different tuning, the typical Turkish tuning is E AA BB ee aa dd, all courses in unison, following the logical “low to high” pitch tuning structure. The way we hold the plectrum is different, the plectrum itself is different. Vasilis uses a guitar style pick here, but this is not the traditional tool for the lute; although commonly used. If you play one, you cannot necessarily just pick up the other and play without getting used to the instrument. The lavta is a laouto, but it too is different… imagine a long neck fretted oud w 4 courses (7 strings) D AA dd aa, with microtones, and a small oud shaped body. This has a particular sound similar to the saz (low action and “buzzy”, its beautiful!). Both instruments are popular, but the oud is found in more parts of the eastern world, so in that respect, it is more popular. The laouto however is used in all types of greek music, traditional and popular, and has a wide, wide range of styles, both traditional/native to particular areas of Greece, and modern interpretations, such as we see here. Hope this shed some light! I am NY based and have been playing laouto for 20+ years, as well as oud, saz, cumbus, lavta, all types of Lyras, bagpipe, zurna..
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In Chania region of Crete, the Laouto was the leading instrument.
Sooooo soooo beautiful.. The warmest of greetings from Crete..
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heavy metal in disguise!
Very wonderfully good !
... what is the Laouto tuning please ?
EADG for cretan and the islands and ADGC for mainland Greece
This is really really good! Can anyone tell me how this particular instrument is when compared to an Oud? Is the Oud played by more people, or is it the other way around? Are those frets I see?
played similarly to the Oud, if you know Oud you'd be able to play Laouto and vice versa. I think Oud is more common, cause its played by Turks, Arabs and Greeks while laouto can only be found in Greece
And yes its fretted
ruclips.net/video/W6V4OHTmCo0/видео.html here are some more songs for you to get to know the instrument
The oud and laouto are entirely different tunings, entirely different instruments despite the similarities in the body.
The laouto is fretted, oud is fretless.
Laouto has a reentrant tuning similar to the uke, tuned Cc Gg Dd aa (looking at face, left to right). The lowest pitch string is the Gg course, the Cc is just one step below the Dd in the same range.
Oud is different tuning, the typical Turkish tuning is E AA BB ee aa dd, all courses in unison, following the logical “low to high” pitch tuning structure.
The way we hold the plectrum is different, the plectrum itself is different. Vasilis uses a guitar style pick here, but this is not the traditional tool for the lute; although commonly used.
If you play one, you cannot necessarily just pick up the other and play without getting used to the instrument.
The lavta is a laouto, but it too is different… imagine a long neck fretted oud w 4 courses (7 strings) D AA dd aa, with microtones, and a small oud shaped body. This has a particular sound similar to the saz (low action and “buzzy”, its beautiful!).
Both instruments are popular, but the oud is found in more parts of the eastern world, so in that respect, it is more popular. The laouto however is used in all types of greek music, traditional and popular, and has a wide, wide range of styles, both traditional/native to particular areas of Greece, and modern interpretations, such as we see here.
Hope this shed some light!
I am NY based and have been playing laouto for 20+ years, as well as oud, saz, cumbus, lavta, all types of Lyras, bagpipe, zurna..
that jangly string of that lute is so annoying
Of all the things to say you chose that? Really? Just enjoy this man's incredible talent
That's how you know that the player is the real deal...