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Detailed explanation-1: -This rabāb is the ancestor of many European bowed instruments, including the rebec and the lyra, though not of those bowed instruments in the lyre family such as the crwth, jouhikko, talharpa and gue.

Detailed explanation-2: -rabāb, Arabic rabābah, Arab fiddle, the earliest known bowed instrument and the parent of the medieval European rebec. It was first mentioned in the 10th century and was prominent in medieval and later Arab music. In medieval times the word rabāb was also a generic term for any bowed instrument.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rabāba or kamānja agūz, a spike fiddle used today to accompany folk singers. Two horsehair string pass over a coconut resonator covered with skin. The resonator can be turned on the spike to facilitate bowing.

Detailed explanation-4: -The rabab and rebec both belonged among the most important bowed string instruments of the European Middle Ages and early Renaissance, while the rabab was also essential in the Arabic-Islamic region from the 9th century onwards.