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Rabab/Ravan-veena/Rebeck
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Rabab |
Sikandar
Zulqarnein, Alexander the Great, is
credited with the invention of the rabab. It is one of the
five basic instruments (veena, mridang, shenai, sarangi and
rabab). Mardana, the disciple of Guru Nanak, was a rababi and
the instrument is mentioned in several verses of the Guru
Granth Sahib.
The body of the rabab is of wood and a skin
stretched over the bowl creates a sound-box. Two groups of
wires called taraps are stretched on the frame; a group of
four above and seven below. A rabab with bands on the wires is
called a nibadh and without bands an anbadh. It is played with
a triangular wooden plectum. The old rababs were inlaid with
ivory and the wires were wound on pegs of deer or sambar
antler. Typically the mridang accompanies the rabab.
Source:
santabanta.com
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