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TEHRAN -- Oud virtuoso Majid Nazempur has recently established a center to promote the musical instrument.
The oud is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in Middle Eastern music, which is distinguished primarily by not having frets and is often seen as the predecessor of the Western lute.
Interested individuals can learn how to play oud at this center entitled the Iranian House of Oud, Nazempur told the Persian service of IRNA on Monday.
Sessions on the history of the instrument and the process of how to make an oud and how to preserve it will also be held at the center, he added.
He also said the center is home to a rich collection of CDs of world famous oud players as well as a library of books on the oud.
A collection of different samples of ouds are also on display at this center, he said.
“Establishing the center was an old dream of mine, which finally came true,” he said, adding that this center will have active participation with the oud centers in the Islamic countries.
RM/YAW
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