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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]
Arabic musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: string instruments (chordophones), wind instruments , and percussion instruments. They evolved from ancient civilizations in the region.
The oud (Arabic: عود, romanized: ʿūd, pronounced) [1] [2] [3] is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument [4] (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.
In the late Middle Ages, the European rebec developed from this instrument (and from the related Byzantine lyra). [2] The Maghreb rebab was described by a musicologist as the "predominant" rebab of North Africa, although the instrument was in decline with younger generations when that was published in 1984.
The instruments are hand made in the family's workshop in Istanbul, by three members of the Cümbüş family, Naci Abidin Cümbüş and his two sons Fethi and Alizeynel. They still make approximately 3000 cümbüşes a year (as of 2002). They also manufacture about 5000 darbukas per year (middle-eastern drums), and sell guitars as well. They ...
Similar instruments are common in the whole Near East from Morocco to Iraq and also in Northern Africa. A distinctive feature of this instrument is the set of snare strings fitted to the interior of the drum skin. A man playing the bendir in Laghouat, Algeria: Chumlak-dombolak A kind of Turkish-Egyptian Dombak with clay body Dabdab [2] [3 ...
Songs are based on poetry and are sung either unaccompanied, or to the stringed instrument, the rebab. [1] Traditional instruments are the rebab and various woodwinds . [ 2 ] Examples of Bedouin music are the Samri of Saudi Arabia , [ 3 ] Aita of Morocco , and the internationally recognised Rai of Algeria .
The mijwiz (Arabic: مجوز , DIN: miǧwiz) is a traditional Middle East musical instrument popular in Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. [1] [2] Its name in Arabic means "dual," because of its consisting of two, short, bamboo pipes with reed tips put together, making the mijwiz a double-pipe, single-reed woodwind instrument.