عَائِلَةٌ تَتَعَلَّمُ الْعُودَ فِي الْخُرْطُومِ

فِي الْخُرْطُومِ، عَاصِمَةِ السُّودَانِ، كَانَ بَيْتٌ لِتَعْلِيمِ الْعُودِ. اسْمُهُ «بَيْتُ الْعُودِ الْعَرَبِيِّ». وَالْعُودُ آلَةٌ مُوسِيقِيَّةٌ قَدِيمَةٌ، وَيَعْرِفُهُ نَاسٌ كَثِيرُونَ فِي السُّودَانِ. فِي سَنَةِ ٢٠٢٠، كَانَ يَتَعَلَّمُ الْعُودَ فِيهِ سِتُّونَ طَالِبًا. وَكَانَتْ بَيْنَهُمْ عَائِلَةٌ كُلُّهَا تَتَعَلَّمُ: أَبٌ، وَأُمٌّ، وَأَوْلَادُهُمَا الثَّلَاثَةُ. وَأَحَدُ الْمُعَلِّمِينَ، مُجَاهِدُ خَالِدٍ، تَعَلَّمَ الْعُودَ فِي الْقَاهِرَةِ. وَفِي صَفِّهِ، كَانَ الطُّلَّابُ يَعْزِفُونَ مُوسِيقَى سُودَانِيَّةً بِخَمْسِ نَغَمَاتٍ. وَكَانَتْ فِي الْبَيْتِ أَيْضًا وَرْشَةٌ لِصِنَاعَةِ الْعُودِ. وَكَانَ يُدِيرُهَا رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْعِرَاقِ. وَفِيهَا كَانَ أَوَّلُ عُودٍ سُودَانِيٍّ يَكْتَمِلُ. وَبَعْدَ سَنَتَيْنِ مِنَ الدِّرَاسَةِ، كَانَ عَلَى كُلِّ طَالِبٍ أَنْ يَعْزِفَ فِي حَفْلَةٍ. وَكَانَ يَعْزِفُ فِيهَا مُوسِيقَى مِنَ السُّودَانِ، وَالْعِرَاقِ، وَتُرْكِيَا، وَمِصْرَ. وَكَانَ الْمَوْهُوبُونَ يَعْزِفُونَ أَلْحَانَهُمْ أَيْضًا.

In Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, there was a house for teaching the oud. Its name was “the Arab Oud House”. The oud is an old musical instrument, and many people in Sudan know it. In 2020, sixty students were learning the oud there. Among them was a family who were all learning: a father, a mother and their three children. One of the teachers, Mujahid Khalid, had learned the oud in Cairo. In his class, the students played Sudanese music with five notes. The house also had a workshop for making ouds. A man from Iraq ran it. And there, the first Sudanese oud was being finished. After two years of study, each student had to play in a concert. And in it he would play music from Sudan, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt. And the gifted students would also play their own tunes.