Amongst such instruments is the Rababa, a vintage one string fiddle-like instrument, which kept Bedouins, or Arab nomads, entertained in the harsh desert. In Jordan and most of the Arab region, the ...

Against the odds, street musicians vie with satellite TV and the Internet Add as a preferred source on Google Cairo: At a Nile-side esplanade, he tenderly held a locally made fiddle and started ...

As many as 15 Rababa players from 12 countries will fiddle the original Arab music at the event, the main objective of which is to revive the once popular Bedouin musical instrument, and protect it ...

Fujairah, 19 Feb. 2013 (WAM) - HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah, opened yesterday the third edition of the Fujairah Rebec (Rababa) at the Fujairah Fort.

“Our folkloric instruments are dying,” says 61-year old, Egyptian musician Salama Metwally as he tunes his favorite rababa. He is wearing his traditional ensemble; a black kaftan overtop a gallebaya ...

2 STRING INSTRUMENT CONSISTING OF GOURD BODY COVERED W. RAWHIDE BELLY, DA 8 CM (GLUED TO GOURD), 5 SOUND HOLES IN BOTTOM OF GOURD; NECK: ROUND STICK, 52 CM, ATTACHED TO GOURD W. IRON ROD, 2 PEGS; 2 ...