Nevertheless some portions of the oud-playing globe, for example Iran, experienced fretted ouds the many way within the tenth to seventeenth centuries, they have been generally inside of a minority. By between 1300 and 1340 the oud experienced come to be modified plenty of by Europeans to bec

The music in Iraq started to take a a lot more Western tone during the 1960s and 1970s, notably by Ilham Madfai, along with his Western guitar stylings with conventional Iraqi music which produced him a preferred performer in his indigenous region and all through the Center East.[29][thirty]