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Emir is the youngest child of three children of a
family, intertwined with music, and his mother
is also a very talented oud player. The author
of these lines has also listened to Emir’s mother
Sabiha Hanim and rubbed off his ear rusts
by her soulful tunes of the oud. Almost every
member of the family is interested in an artbranch-though
they are amateurs-, it can be
said that music, painting and all of hobbies that
require hand-work came together in Sabiha
Hanim. Obviously, the young artist inherited his
music taste from his family as well as his music
talent. Emir whose grandfather was
also a good oud and metal mandolin
player, met the traditional
oud while he was at middle
school.
Değirmenli says, "My mother’s playing oud was the opportunity for me to meet
the instrument. The most preferred musical instrument of that age was guitar,
but I started playing the oud and taking my first “icra” (performance) lessons.
I also continued to play until the period of preparation for university
studies.” While he was a junior at university, he took a great opportunity
to make his first oud in an oud-building training workshop. After hearing
the sound of his first instrument, he understood that this was the
right profession he always wanted to do. The Artist describes this
process in his own words, “I had an opportunity to meet my master
Cevat Buyukgural in an amateur oud-building workshop and
we immediately started to work next day. The process was not
very planned, but it was very exciting and fast.”
I Have Never Said ‘’If Only’’
The Artist who both continued to the university and was engaged
in the construction of the oud, understood that he
faced a never-ending research and development process with
a courage of obtaining financial gain after his ouds gained appreciation
and began to be sold. Thus, with his great pleasure
of his work Değirmenli thought “Why is not the oud-building
my profession” and decided to work in this area after graduation.
When we asked Emir about his other masters besides
Cevat Buyukgural, he told us that he found an opportunity to