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Rubab, robab, or rabab (Persian: رُباب, Punjabi: ਰਬਾਬ, Kashmiri: رَبابہٕ, Sindhi: رَبابُ (Arabic script), रबाबु , Azerbaijani / Turkish: Rübab, Tajik / Uzbek рубоб) is a lute-like musical instrument. [1] The rubab is the national musical instrument of Afghanistan; it is also commonly played in India and ...
Rebab (Arabic: ربابة, rabāba, variously spelled rebap, rubob, rebeb, rababa, rabeba, robab, rubab, rebob, etc) is the name of several related string instruments that independently spread via Islamic trading routes over much of North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and parts of Europe. [1]
The Northwest African rebab consists of two joined parts: the elongated, boat-shaped instrument (Morocco) or pear-shaped instrument (Algeria and Tunisia), and the bent-back tuning head. The body up to the peghead is hollow; the carved body is 48–60 cm long, 9–12 cm wide, 8 cm deep, and is made of walnut or cedar wood.
Rababi (Gurmukhi: ਰਬਾਬੀ) is a term used to refer to a player of the rabab instrument. In the Sikh liturgical tradition, there are three types of musicians—rababis, ragis, and dhadhis, all of which flourished during the period of the gurus. The descendants remained rababis to all the 10 gurus, keeping alive rabab music.
Rubab (instrument), a lute-like musical instrument Pamiri rubab, a fretless six-strung lute of Tajikistan; Seni rebab, plucked string instrument of northern India; Rubab bint Imra al-Qais, wife of Husayn ibn ‘Alī; Rubab Raza (born 1991), Pakistani Olympic swimmer; Rubab Sayda (born 1950), Indian politician; Meera (Pakistani actress), Irtiza ...
The Pamiri rubab has six gut strings or nylon strings, one of which, rather than running from the head to the bridge, is attached partway down the neck, similar to the fifth string of the American banjo. [3] The instrument is primarily used for drone and rhythm accompaniment, for instance accompanying spoken or sung poetry. [4]
The rawap or rubab (Tajik: Рубоб, Uzbek: rubob) is an Eastern Iranian fretted plucked long-necked stringed instrument also used in folk music by residents of the Uyghur autonomous region of Xinjiang, Western China.
Nation Instrument Description Recording H-S number Image Afghanistan: rubab [6] [7] rabab: Short-necked three-stringed lute with sympathetic and drone strings, fretted and plucked with a plectrum, with a double-chambered body, the lower part of which is covered in skin, and with three main strings