Rabab (fiddle) Wood, goat skin, sheep gut, reed. Bow: horse hair Le : 53 cm The Arab and Mediterranean Center Tunisia

This rabab is made of a walnut soundbox in an elongated oval shape. The top has an upper part covered in thin cooper sheet that is chiselled and decorated with three small rosettes. The lower part is covered with goat skin. The neck also has two large keys to hold two sheep gut strings that pass over a reed bridge. Fingering is obtained by laterally hooking the string which does not have any direct contract with the fretboard. The bow is very curved and is made of horse hair. The rabab has a low range and its music is written in the key of F. It has an strange nasal tone and gives richly harmonic sounds. It is tuned in fifths (G-D).