Oud
The oud, ud ou outi, is a plucked string musical instrument very common in Arab countries, Turkey, Greece, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Its name comes from the Arabic al-oud, term transformed in Europe in laute, alaude, laud, liuto, lute. In the Far East, he probably inspired the Chinese pipa, in Japanese biwa. Barbarian is certainly at the origin, but if this instrument still exists symbolically in Iran, it is very uncommon and it has been reinvented recently from archives. It is therefore necessary here to focus more on the name oud, more generally known, all the more so as the instruments do not differ very much. Lute short-handed par excellence, it has often been the subject of reference works of Muslim musicologists of the medieval time. The oud has as common points with the lute the same number of strings and the shape of the instrument, but it has no frets.