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 rebab type usually had two strings, a skin belly, and narrow body, and is illustrated in 13th-century documents. |
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. |
The bow developed very slowly in Europe and remained a crude instrument as long as it was applied to the rebab and its hybrids. |