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Rabab

wooden body, parchment table; bridge and 2 strings; pegbox and scroll at right-angle to neck; fingerboard in perforated blackened ?brass; ornamented in ivory; length 502

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  • Inscriptions:fingerboard a decorative perforated pattern of 3 roundels with stylized flowers, 8-pointed star; edged in part with ivory; at each side flower-heads in crude mother-of-pearl and red-coloured inlay
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  • Repository:Royal Northern College of Music