Tajik rubab usually refers to a plucked lute tradition known locally through spellings such as rubab, rubob, rubāb and, in […]

The Uzbek rubab is best understood as a family of plucked lutes rather than one fixed instrument. In Uzbekistan it

Central Asian rubab is not one single, fixed instrument. The name points to a family of plucked lutes whose forms

Turkish rebab, often written rebap in modern Turkish, names a bowed string instrument tied to Ottoman music, Mevlevi musical practice,

A Persian rubab is best understood as a rubab-family instrument seen through Persian-language naming, historical writing, and regional music practice.

The Balinese rebab is a small two-string bowed lute used inside selected Balinese gamelan ensembles, where its soft line bends

A Javanese rebab in gamelan is a quiet bowed lute with a large musical task: it shapes melodic direction in

The Indonesian rebab is a bowed spike lute heard most clearly in the softer side of gamelan, where its thin,

Arabic rabab usually points to a bowed folk fiddle of the Arab-speaking world, especially the Bedouin rababa: a lean instrument

The Afghan rubab is a short-necked, plucked lute with a carved wooden body, a skin-covered resonating face, melody strings, drone