Oud, Turkish with Soft Case (Item Code: OUDT) 11 strings 14 1/2" x 30" x 8". The soundboard is European spruce (Picea abies) and has three wooden rosette sound holes each accented with b/w/b circular rings. The body is constructed of 21 alternating staves of African padauk (Pterocarpus soyauxii) and African sapele (Entandrophragma cylindricum) separated with a thin line of holly. The neck has a core of beechwood which has been overlaid with alternating strips of padauk and sapele veneer to match the body. The peg box is outfitted with 11 olivewood pegs and a bone nut. The fingerboard is unfinished sapele with a border of holly and ebony lines with a scale length of 580mm. Includes soft case and pick.

Suggested Turkish Oud tunings (from low to high): C#, F#, B, E, A, D or E, A, B, E, A, D

SPECIAL NOTE; No Warranty on Strings: On occasion instruments may arrive with a broken string, therefore, it is recommended that you purchase a replacement set of strings and consider changing your strings as soon as it arrives. We recommend the LaBella OU80 String Set (Item Code: LBSOUDT). If you want to tune this shorter scale Turkish Oud in the Arabic style (D, G, A, D, G, C), we recommend the D'Addario J95 Oud string set. (Item Code: OUDG).

NOTE: We do not recommend tuning the J95 oud string set in the Turkish style.