report im doing

what i has so far: " Music is improtant in the Middle East and Western Europe. Middle Eastern music is heavily influenced by music from Greece and India. Middle Eastern music is also influenced by Central Asia, Spain, Southern 

Italy, the Cacascaus and the Balkins, as in Chalga music. In Arabic music a scale consists of 17, 19 or 24 notes in a single octave. There are 32 different beat styles in this music. Most popular of all stringed

instruments is the oud. An oud traditionally had four strings, but current instruments have up to six courses with of one or two strings each. The oud was supposedly invented by Lamech, the 

sixth grandson of Adam. It also says that the first oud was inspired by the shape of his son's bleached skeleton. the oldest pictorial record of the oud is over 5000 years ago. "