What type of instrument is rebab?

string bowed lute
Southeast Asia In the Indonesian gamelan the rebab is an essential elaborating instrument, ornamenting the basic melody. A two-string bowed lute consisting of a wooden body, traditionally though now rarely a single coconut shell, covered with very fine stretched skin.

What does a rubab look like?

8-shaped body resembles a tar, but tars have both sides of the 8 covered with hide. Rubabs had a lower section covered with hide, and an upper hollow section covered with wood.

What does a rabab look like?

The rabāb has a membrane belly and, commonly, two or three strings. There is normally no fingerboard, the strings being stopped by the player’s fingers. Body shapes vary. Pear- and boat-shaped rabābs were particularly common and influenced the rebec.

What is a rebab used for?

The rebab is a Javanese bowed spike-lute chordophone used in the gamelan orchestra of the Javanese people of Java, Indonesia. Although in the past most gamelan music was performed by males (except for the female vocal parts), the rebab was one of only a few instruments deemed acceptable for females to perform.

How is rebab instrument played?

A rebab is played by a solo musician sitting cross-legged and is held in a vertical position either in front of the left shin or clasped between the calf and the thigh. The play bows the instrument with a bow made from wood and horse’s tail or, these days, nylon.

Who created rabab?

As far as we are aware, the earliest description of a musical instrument termed rabab has been given in the Kitab- al-Musiqi Al Kabir of Al-Farabi (AD 872-950).

Where did rabab come from?

Rabab is a lute like musical instrument originated from central Afghanistan. Its name was derived from Arab language Rebab which means “played with a bow”. In central Asia the instrument is different in construction.

Is rubab from Pakistan?

Rubab is a lute-like musical instrument originally from central Afghanistan and Pakistan. The rubab is a short-necked lute whose body is carved out of a single piece of wood, with a membrane, covering the hollow bowl of the sound-chamber, upon which the bridge is positioned.

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