Dear Families,

I wanted to introduce possibly a new instrument to you, which is the Oud.

The oud (Arabic: عود‎ ʿūd [ʕuːd]) is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of instruments) with 11 or 13 strings grouped in 5 or 6 courses, commonly used predominantly in the music of Egypt, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, …

Warmly,

Ms. Wilder