About oud music
Though some areas of the oud-actively playing environment, like Iran, had fretted ouds each of the way in the 10th to 17th centuries, they had been constantly in the minority.[plus the] size [from the ‛ūd] are going to be: thirty-6 joint fingers—with excellent thick fingers—and the whole will amount to a few ashbār.[Notes 1] And its width: