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What is a rebec?

What is a rebec? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras.
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Bonnivet, during his investment of Milan, had posted Bayard with a small corps in the village of rebec.
The four members play harp, lute, gittern, recorder, pipes plus vielle and rebec and are joined by the female vocal trio Voice.
Traditional Arabic music uses string instruments, such as the rebec, lotar, ud, and kamanja.
And it was so ready with refrains and lays and songs and new tunes, that harp, or viol, or rebec were as nought beside it.
Materials for the Rebec would be much the same as for the harp or lyre, although the Rebec has only three strings.
It was Rizzio's skill upon the rebec that had first attracted Mary's attention.

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