Craig Wayne Boyd & Blake Shelton - Boots On (The Voice Performance)

REBAB, rabab, slave (Arabic). 1) The collective name of bow instruments in Muslims. 2) Arab. strings. bowed music. tool. (The term “R.” in Arabic means connecting short sounds into one long one.) It has a wooden flat or convex, heart-shaped or trapezoidal body with small notches on the sides; shells made of wood or coconut, leather decks (from the buffalo guts or bladder of other animals); the neck is round, pointed, at the top with 1-2 transverse pegs, at the bottom passes through the body and acts in the form of metallic. faceted legs. Strings (1-2) originally from horsehair, later copper or brass. Sounds are extracted with a bow-shaped bow. It was also used as a plucked instrument. Nar singers (Shairs) performed on R. elegich. poems and accompanied singing. Varieties of R.found among the peoples of India, the Malay archipelago, Egypt, north-west. parts of Africa, as well as in Central Asia (rubab). R.'s description is available in the Great Treatise on Music by AHM al-Farabi (1st half of the 10th century).