rebec
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The rebec (sometimes rebecha, rebeckha, and other spellings, pronounced or ) is a bowed stringed instrument of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. In its most common form, it has a narrow boat-shaped body and one to five strings.
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- Rebec
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- The rebec in "Virgin among Virgins" (1509), by Gerard David.
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- string
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- Bowed string instruments
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- Bowl lyre sounded by a bow
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- Middle Ages
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- Vielle Viol Rebab Rabel Rabeca Byzantine lyra
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The rebec (sometimes rebecha, rebeckha, and other spellings, pronounced or ) is a bowed stringed instrument of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. In its most common form, it has a narrow boat-shaped body and one to five strings.
==Origins== Popular from the 13th to 16th centuries, the introduction of the rebec into Western Europe coincided with the Arabic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. There is, however, evidence of the existence of bowed instruments in the 9th century in Eastern Europe. The Persian geographer of the 9th century Ibn Khurradadhbih cited the bowed Byzantine lira (or lyra) as a typical bowed instrument of the Byzantines and equivalent to the pear-shaped Arab rebab.