Bedouins Favourite Musical Instrument
"Arabic Rababah, arab fiddle, the earliest known bowed instrument and the parent of the medieval European rebec. It was first mentioned in the 10th century and was prominent in medieval and later Arab art music. In medieval times the word rabab was also a generic term for any bowed instrument."
Encyclopaedia Britannica
PS. Notice the Arabic coffee behind him, It is a kind that prepared on hot coal.
posted by Ghalia at
4/18/2005
3 Comments:
lovely picture, I would pay to sit like that and enjoy the culture
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x, at 19/4/05 2:10 AM
its also the parent of the violin :)
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Roba, at 25/4/05 2:23 AM
obviously, the man on the right hand side is not photogenic, or from the secret services, or flashophobe, or shy.... lol
nice post, i think this is quite hard to play because there's not some others string which means than u have to be pretty good, to make a music, pleasant at ears! it's more difficult than some strings together.
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Unknown, at 25/4/05 7:40 PM
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