Rebab

The rebab (Arabic رباب, DMG Rabab ) denotes Turkish and Arabic Strings with simple round sound body and usually two or three strings.

About Spain and Sicily the rebab came to Central Europe and encouraged here in the 13th century to the rebec, one of the most important stringed instruments of the Middle Ages. Despite its limited tonal range of slightly more than an octave, the rebab became a favorite instrument of popular music in the Ottoman Empire. Similarities to, in the Iranian music played, slightly longer string lute Kamancheh. A form of rebab with small round sound box, and three strings played in Indonesia.

The rebab should not be confused with the to be found in Afghanistan Rubab, a plucked instrument with about 19 strings and a double body. Similarly, to distinguish it from the rebab, the games played in Afghanistan String Instruments Ghichak and the related Sarinda. From the Rubab, the Iranian plucked lute Tar has developed dual- resonance body.

In several Arab and Central Asian countries to China, there are developed from the Arabic consonants root rbb, under names such as Rawap in Uyghur, rebab, Rubab, Robab, Rababah ... more stringed instruments; most Central Asian are related to the Afghan model. Their range extends from the one-stringed lute -painted box spit Ribab the Moroccan - Berber Rwais in the west to the two-stringed fiddle sting rebab ( spike fiddle with shell membrane ceiling) in the Muslim Music of Lombok to the east.