Oud tuning and string replacement

July 10, 2021

I found out that the order in which Oud strings are connected to their pegs when replacing the strings is important for a few reasons. It makes the neck look pretty, but more importantly, it makes the tuning more accurate when replacing strings, because it becomes easier to make sure that strings are not touching each other.

This is how the pegbox looks like:

	      +---------------------+
	      |                     |
	      |               +-----+----------+
	      |               |                |
	      |               |                |
  +-----------+----+          +-----+----------+
  |   Do Bass      |
  |   C Bass                  +-----+----------+
  +-----------+----+          |    Sol 1       |
	      |               |    G1          |
	      |               +-----+----------+
  +-----------+----+                |
  |   Sol 2        |                |
  |   G2           |                |
  +-----------+----+           +----+-----------+
	      |                |   La 2         |
	      |                |   A2           |
  +-----------+----+           +----+-----------+
  |   Ré 2         |                |
  |   D2           |                |
  +-----------+----+           +----+-----------+
	      |                |   La 1         |
	      |                |   A1           |
  +-----------+----+           +----+-----------+
  |   Ré 1         |                |
  |   D1           |                |
  +-----------+----+           +----+-----------+
	      |                |   Do 2         |
	      |                |   C2           |
	      |                +----+-----------+
   +-----------+----+                |
   |   Sol 2        |                |
   |   G2           |                |
   +-----------+----+           +----+-----------+
	       |                |   Do 1         |
	       |                |   C1           |
   +-----------+----+           +----+-----------+
   |   Sol 1        |                |
   |   G1           |                |
   +-----------+----+                |
	       |                     |
	       +---------------------+

Replacing strings

Strings to bridge

Start by connecting strings to the bridge in the following order.

Strings to pegbox

Oud tuning

Oud strings tunning is as follows:

[  Do / C  ] ---------------------
[ Sol / G  ] ---------------------
[ Sol / G  ] ---------------------
[  La / A  ] ---------------------
[  La / A  ] ---------------------
[  Ré / D  ] ---------------------
[  Ré / D  ] ---------------------
[ Sol / G  ] ---------------------
[ Sol / G  ] ---------------------
[  Do / C  ] ---------------------
[  Do / C  ] ---------------------

Sources: