Construction and Materials

Wood used in rubab making is not only a matter of appearance. It affects weight, carving, neck stability, resonance, repair […]

The bridge on a rebab is a small part with a large job. It lifts the strings, spaces them, carries

The rebab bow is a small part of the instrument, but it controls much of the sound. On bowed rebab,

A rebab soundboard is the vibrating surface that turns string movement into audible tone. In many traditional rebab, rabab and

Rebab body shapes vary because the name rebab does not point to one fixed object everywhere. It describes a family

The rubab is built around a simple but demanding idea: a carved wooden body, a skin-covered resonating face, and several

A rebab is best understood through the way its parts share tension: the strings pull across a small bridge, the