Dear friends, colleagues and ud lovers,

Hereby I want to answer to some frequently asked questions. Thank you very much for your kind interest.

* I use C#,F#,B,E,A,D tuning -low to high- and do NOT change the tuning of 5th & 6th strings regardless which tone / makam or transposition I do play.

* I read Western contemporary notes and chord symbols fluently.

* I was playing Turkish folk instrument 'baglama' before ud playing for a long time, that helped me to start ud with folk music approach. Same time I was very much into Flamenco, Arabic Music, Persian, Indian, Jazz and modern & classic western music and of course I was listening many intercultural music groups.

* I started ud with traditional Turkish music as many of my colleagues. But I switched to Sharif Muhyiddin Targan's method. After finishing his method and playing his compositions, I searched for for years for an advance technique that I can play anything with. I found & developed my left hand -finger positioning and streching- technique in 5 years, which I have been using it since 2003 so far. Honestly I am not really hurrying up to write my method yet, but will definitely in long term.

* I've never played guitar, -cannot play a fretted instrument- but I love to listen and import some some of Flamenco & Jazz guitar to my ud souncd.

* I play a Turkish ud made by Ramazan Calay from Istanbul, recommended!

*Please do not hesitate to ask any other questions you want to be answered.