Jamil Bashir

Jamil Bashir was born in Mosul, Iraq in 1921 and is the brother of Munir Bashir. His father started to teach him the oud when he was around six years old, as his father was a singer, oud player and oud maker. When the iraqi Music Institute opened in 1936, Jamil enrolled to learn oud with Sherif Muheddin Haydar and violin with Sando Alio. He finished his oud study in 1943 and his violin study in 1946, and then worked at the Institute as an oud and violin teacher. He also wrote a two-volume oud method. Jamil Bashir was also a good singer, but he did not continue singing as he preferred the oud. He died in London on 27th September 1977 Jamil Bashir, Iraq, Oud File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Jamil Bashir, Iraq, Oud File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Mosūl (Kurdish: Mûsil, Arabic: موصل, al Mawsil) or Nineveh (Syriac: ܢܝܢܘܐ) is a city in northern Iraq/Central Assyria. ... Munir Bashir Munir Bashir was born in Mosul in northern Iraq into a musical family of Assyrian extraction. ... Front and rear views of an oud. ... The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ...