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- noun An Arabian stringed instrument, played by plucking or with a
bow .
Etymologies
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His forefathers came in the mid-1700's from Afghanistan to India's relaxed music atmosphere and brought the rabab, a string instrument that which later developed into the sarod.
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His forefathers came in the mid-1700's from Afghanistan to India's relaxed music atmosphere and brought the rabab, a string instrument that which later developed into the sarod.
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BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan, June 16, 2009 – With the background melodies of a sitar, rabab and bongo drums filling the air, a siren-like voice beckoned the crowd to dance to the unique Afghan sounds.
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His forefathers came in the mid-1700's from Afghanistan to India's relaxed music atmosphere and brought the rabab, a string instrument that which later developed into the sarod.
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The musician hammered his bow against the belly of the rabab and grinned.
Spin 2005
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One of them was playing a rabab, a stringed instrument.
Spin 2005
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Then she would take her rabab and play to the listening flowers, or practise her dancing, the source of his pleasure, or lie in the noonday heat on the edge of the bubbling spring that rose up in the moss under the boughain-villia and look towards the East and dream of his home-coming.
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Shabana was a singing and dancing girl, of whom there are many in the tribal areas; they perform at weddings, while the men play harmoniums and the stringed rabab.
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Shabana was a singing and dancing girl, of whom there are many in the tribal areas; they perform at weddings, while the men play harmoniums and the stringed rabab.
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