Off to vacation

Man, thats rough, 3 weeks without your guitar.
Every summer my family goes out to my grand parents for a week, and I can't take my guitar. Hopefully they'll have a music store nearby that you could visit often to keep your chops up. Anyway, have fun.

Sneak your guitar on the plane.

Then ROCK THE KASBAH! 8)

Have a safe vacation and hurry back.

Wes

Have fun any way. Think positive maybe you'll find a great deal on one while your there. I just got back from going fishing up north last week, was suppose to go for two weeks, I came back early. I played guitar the the first night and most of the next day. Finally got out fishing was doing fine until my daughter made pets and named the all the minnows...lol

Joe

I managed to take my Epi LP to Texas, and arranged to have one shipped here....going to be fun getting them home!!!

Went to Amsterdam earlier this year, no guitar, couldn't wait to get home...and that was only 4 days...

Took my acoustic to Benidorm for a week...wasn't going to make the same mistake again....!!!!

Anyway, have a good trip....took us a grand total of 38 hours from leaving home in England to booking in at Texas hotel....

:D :D :D

Vic

thanks eveyrone, Im sure everything will be fine done there.

38 hours vic? I would've gone crazy. Getting there is a pain in the arse. It's going to be 7 hours to Paris, with 5 hours for timezones, and then a 1.5 hour wait for the conencting flight to Beirut, Lebanon which takes 4 hours, plus 2 more hours for timezones. It's going to get crazy. Nowhere close to you vic, but still pretty bad.

I'm interested in buying an ood, thats the arabic word, I tried my best to english-ize it. It's got an acoustic guitar shape, but the head stock is at a 90 degree angle, it's used everywhere in arabic music. It's also a few times smaller than a standard acoustic. The body shape is more of a large bowl.

Kinda like this:

Anyways, the flight is tomorrow, July 6th at 5pm.
From here on, enjoy 3 more weeks with your guitars

have fun black, and be careful, beriut can be dangerous :wink:

Kinda like this:

Did anyone look at these and try to count the tuning pegs on the 3rd picture? There had to be at least 20 strings on that bad boy. :shock:

20 strings and 4 fingers? Hmmm....coud be fun....

BTW, took 38 hours to get here, with a 2-hour layover in Minnesota...going back we have a 6 and a 1/2 hour wait between flights...

:D :D :D

Vic

Have fun blackzero. Hope you can get one of those 'funky guitars'.

Thanks for everything guys.

Its around 10am now, and I'm leaving here to JFK at 1pm.

I found that the name of the instrument. It's called the "oud"
There are a ton of sites about it, maintenance and all. I found it surprising that GHS makes oud strings. Also, ouds have around 11-12 strings, and they can easily vary.

http://www.oud.eclipse.co.uk/index.html

http://www.ukuleleworld.com/uw_oud.html

Just a couple of sites to fuel your interests. They tend to be expensive because every oud is a super custom shop instrument. The cheapest I've seen is $289. While the really expensive ones go through an incredible process. For example, this one craftsman, he cooks/stores wood for 7-13 years before it hits the right content to be made into an oud.

Hey everyone, how are you all doing? Hope I didn't miss anything on the forums.

Im fine, jsut come back from Beirut on the 31st. It was a decent vacation, but it seemed too short in the end. I really didn't think I could stay any longer though, I started to geet nervous over there, over a course of 21 days, there were 3 car bombs with a total of 2 ppl dead, which is about 2 people too many.

I didn't get a chance to buy an aoud. I really wanted to though. I found a great one, really excellent quality for 100,000LL, which is about $66! It was a real once in a lifetime deal, but whats the point of having parents if they don't say "no", so thats the end of that.

3 weeks apart from my guitar has been horrible, my cousin continously pointed out whenever I would air guitar in the middle of the conversation. At one point, it got really bad, I was using two hands and at the dinner table. :lol: :lol: My parent's weren't too happy with that, and my grandparents think Im positively nuts. Other than that, nothing exciting 8)

It's good to be back to answering threads, and I hope you all have a good time.

Glad to hear you made it back alive. This world is a fuc.........I'll just leave it at that. Sorry to hear you didn't get your aoud but, best things come to those who wait.

Either way, glad to have you back!

Welcome back man! :)

Good to have you back in one piece....btw, took us 50 hours to get back from Texas, including a 12-hour delay in Minneapolis Airport (if the world had haemhorroids, that's where they'd be!!!) and a bomb scare in London - next time, we book direct flights!!!!

:D :D :D

Vic