Bedouin playing rabab, Wadi Rum, Jordan
Bedouin playing a rabab (bedouin violin), Wadi Rum, Jordan. The rabab is made from a rectangular wooden frame with goat skin stretched across it. The single steel string is tunable with a wooden peg mounted on the long neck. It is played with a bow. This instrument is the essential melody instrument of the nomadic Bedouins; customarily played by the sha'ir, or poet-singer, to accompany heroic and love songs. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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13425951
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45117307
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Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
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Photograph by Manuel Cohen
