i screwed one of those strap pegs into the butt end of my oud, made a leather strap with leather thong to attach it to the peg box and i have to say it looked ok - comfortable too - but i just pulled it all off again.
the weakest point on an oud - i presume it's also for a lute - is where the neck joins the body. both my ouds - one cheap, the other not - started to buckle at this point, thus causing string buzz and it occurred to me (duh! ... duh-duh!!) that placing an over the shoulder strap on the instrument puts tugging pressure at both ends and probably helped to bend it back on itself, aggravating the aforementioned buckle at the neck/body join. if someone warned me of this beforehand, i obviously didn't get it. - bill early music charango ... http://groups.google.com/group/charango Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
