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Salman Shukur was born in 1921 in Baghdad, Iraq. He studied the oud under Sherif Muheddin Haydar at the Baghdad Conservatory and later became a Professor of oud and the head of the Oriental Music Department at the institute founded by Haydar, a position he held for 30 years. Additionally, he served as the Artistic Advisor for the Iraqi Ministry of Information. Shukur frequently performed for Iraqi radio and television and toured internationally, giving concerts in China, Iran, Egypt, Germany, England, and the United States, with his last public performance recorded as recently as 1997. He made one full-length recording, "Salman Shukur - oud," for Decca Headline, which was recorded in Rosslyn Hill Chapel in London in 1976 and released in 1977. A brief excerpt of his solo oud performance in Rast Iraq can also be found on the Tangent Record series Music In The World Of Islam: Lutes. For his recording, he used an oud built by Ustad Ali, which features six courses and a traditional glued-to-the-face bridge. Shukur's tuning for the oud is d-g-a-d'-g', and he employs both a plectrum and all four fingers of his right hand while playing.

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