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• Stackabones New

  March 2008 Posts: 597

  Cool!
  
  Just a casual observation ... it seems like the rest-stroke would be popular among acoustic musicians playing in dance-hall situations. Are there any plectrum instruments in classical music that utilize the rest stroke?
• MichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator

  March 2008 Posts: 6,177

  Stackabones wrote:

  Cool!
  
  Just a casual observation ... it seems like the rest-stroke would be popular among acoustic musicians playing in dance-hall situations.

  
  Just about every string instrument around the world is played using some variation of the rest stroke technique. Oud, Tres, bozouki, bandola, etc, etc.
  
  

  Stackabones wrote:

  Are there any plectrum instruments in classical music that utilize the rest stroke?

  
  the Mandolin...
  
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• Stackabones New

  March 2008 Posts: 597

  So it's been developed across the board for plectrum instruments in most cultures? Awesome!
• Matthias Lenz Lucklum, GermanyNew

  August 2008 Posts: 101

  I really enjoyed watching this guy playing the oud...
  what a fantastic right hand !
  I think it´d be very nice to see some more video footage of rest-stroke picking technique used on different instruments...
  
  
  

  www.youtube.com/mucklum
• djangology Portland, OregonModerator

  August 2008 Posts: 1,024

  here is another fun one that I like watching. I would love to buy one of those instruments but I don't know anything about them and I wouldn't want to get screwed.
  
  
• Matthias Lenz Lucklum, GermanyNew

  August 2008 Posts: 101

  Hey Djangology,
  
  that is exactly the clip that turned me on to the one that I posted.
  
  I really like this instrument (and sometimes fantasize what it would sound like when played with a Wegen Fatone Pick...hehehe...typical guitar player´s comment I guess)
  
  I googled the oud a bit and found out that there are some that are quite affordable (found one for 250 Euros), but then again, like you I don´t know anything about them....Most likely it´s a price range similar to acoustic guitars, starting at a very low budget and going up to thousands for high quality instruments. Who knows ?
  
  What I like especially is the absence of frets and the vast amount of intervals available. Hearing these scales makes my mind travel to distant places, propably leading back to the Indian origins of Gypsies and Gypsy music...

  www.youtube.com/mucklum
• DrSnyder New

  November 2008 Posts: 16

  I've been to Syria and bought myself an oud. Funny but difficult instrument. It takes a while to get used to the fretless finger board.
  
  I got mine with fairly good quality for 100 bucks in Germany I would have paid for the same thing more than twice the price.
• tresero New

  December 2008 Posts: 10

  check out Pancho Amat on the Tres, considered by many to be the greatest living Tresero. I think of him as the Bireli Lagrene of the Tres. This is a collection of a few of his solos.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBggYZcRs_A