Rebab

Rebab tiga tali
St.Cecilia's - Rebab 1970
This article is about the bowed instrument. For the Central Asian plucked instrument, see Rubab (instrument). For the rebab used by north Indian musicians, see Seni rebab.
3 string instruments
St. Cecilia's -1900 Tayaw

K.P.H. Notoprojo, famous Indonesian rebab player
Iraqi jawza (جوزه) player Salih Shemayil at the first Cairo Congress of Arab Music (1932)
Rebabs, Mevlâna mausoleum, Konya, Turkey
Rebab from Yemen.

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] The instrument is typically bowed, but is sometimes plucked. It is one of the earliest known bowed instruments, named no later than the 8th century, and is the parent of many bowed and stringed instruments.

  1. ^ The origins of the violin - the rebab, BBC