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What is a rebab?

What is a rebab? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A stringed musical instrument, related to the lute, used especially in Islamic countries
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The rebab was played by Bhai Mardana as he accompanied Guru Nanak on his journeys.
The rebab type usually had two strings, a skin belly, and narrow body, and is illustrated in 13th-century documents.
It may be the flute, the mediaeval lute, or the viola or rebab of Jordi Savall himself, one of the acknowledged masters of his instrument.
The full gamelan orchestra consists of bronze gongs, keyed metallophones, drums, a flute, a rebab fiddle, and a celempung zither.
This rebab is an exact counterpart of the rebec formerly popular in Western Europe.
He was very angry when told to go, and broke a rebab we had given him to play on, for he could both play and sing well.

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