Marco Sollazzo

Once, in a small nursery in Italy, I played the oud for a group of children.
They were five years old, of course, laughing, restless, with no idea what this strange pear-shaped instrument was.
After I finished, one of them…

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The oud, often called the “sultan of instruments” or “king of instruments”, is a fretless Middle Eastern lute with ancient roots going back over 5,000 years to Mesopotamia.

Loved by musicians across the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, and…