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“…inspired by the shape of his son’s bleached skeleton”

I came across this passage: According to Farabi, the oud was invented by Lamech, the sixth grandson of Adam. The legend tells that the grieving Lamech hung the body of his dead son from a tree. The first oud was inspired by the shape of his son’s bleached skeleton. http://www.primary-music.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=6 That’s just kinda interesting, if [...]

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2009 03 02 Jon Silpayamanant Comments (0)

Why bellydancers, anyway? (part 1)

This is a question we get asked on occasion–and it seems to have popped up more recently than it had before. Rather than give the same “origin” story of how we hooked up with Zweena bint Asya and Troupe Taleeba ( http://taleeba.tribe.net/ ) back in December of 2004, I’ll give y’all some of my background, [...]

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2007 05 18 Jon Silpayamanant Comments (0)