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Folk and World Music Instruments

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Rabab - short-necked fiddle from North Africa. Used in classical Arabic music. It is also found in India, the Middle East and Spain under different names.

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Rababa - 1. Afghan lute with 13 sympathetic strings. The three main gut strings are stretched across a goat skin. Also known as rubab. 2. Another name for the rabab used in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf nations.  

•  Article about the rababa in Yemen: Dates, Coffee, Wisdom and Rababa

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Rabeca - Brazilian fiddle.

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Rabel- a bowed folk instrument from Spain. It originated from the North African rabab.

• Rabel. Site in Spanish about the Cantabrian rabel. 

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Rag dung - Tibetan ritual trumpets.

Rajão - a mid-size Portuguese guitar from the island of Madeira, which is a little bigger than the braguinha.

Ratatak - clacker made with gourd jingles.

Rbab soussi - Moroccan one-stringed fiddle.

Rebab - See rabab.

Rebaba - See rabab.

Rebec – a Medieval European version of the rabab.

Reco-reco - a long hollow scraper popular in Angolan music. Also known as dikanza puita. 2. A Brazilian scraper of bamboo or metal, sometimes with springs.

Recorder – a European wooden whistle flute made in various sizes. In recent times it has become popular as a tool to teach music to children. Newer models also come in plastic.

Redondo - an Afro-Venezuelan drum set formed by long cylindrical drums. It is layed on the ground and the musician sits on top of the drum, striking the head with his hands and a stick.

Reed - 1. a musical pipe made from a hollow stem. 2. A thin strip of a flexible substance placed within the mouthpiece of certain wind instruments. When vibrated by breathing, it produces a musical tone 3. An instrument with a reed.

Repinique – a small samba drum with a metallic sound. It is played with one stick and the bare hand (Brazil).  

Repinique. Courtesy of Earthshaking Music. Buy it now.

 

Repique - Afro-Uruguayan candombe drum.

Reque – See riqq.

Reque Reque – (pronounced reh-keh reh-keh) a South American scraper found in Bolivia and other Andean nations.

Requinto - 1. A wooden flute-like instrument from Galicia (Spain) that is played sideways. 2. Small guitar used in Spain, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. 3. The lead drum in the Afro-Puerto Rican style of bomba.

Requinto jarocho - a small 4-string Mexican guitar from the Jarocho region. It is used in son jarocho. Also known as guitarra de son and javalina. 

Rewap - a three-string long necked lute of the Uighur Turks in China. The resonator is usually round, covered with python skin or other elements and sometimes there are elaborate wood, bone and horn inlays.

Rhozok - a Russian wind instrument made out of wood, with a trumpet-like mouthpiece. It is also known as Vladimir horn.

Rigg - See riqq.

Rigurigi - Ugandan one-string fiddle.

Rik - See riqq.

Riq – See riqq.

Riqq - Middle Eastern and North African tambourine.

Riti - Gambian one-string violin

Rkan-dun - Tibetan bone pipes made of human thighs.

Robab - See Rubab.

Rojok - Russian trumpet carved from a single piece of wood, usually apple wood.

Rolmo - horizontal ritual cymbals used by Tibetan monks in Buddhist rites.

Rommelpot - a Swedish friction drum.

Rondador - small panpipes arranged in thirds on one row. Capable of producing harmony by blowing a tube and its adjacent third. Originated in Ecuador.

Roneat ek - Cambodian high-pitched xylophone.

Roneat thung - Cambodian low-pitched xylophone.  

Ronroco - an Andean string instrument that is part of the family of charangos. The ronroco has five double-strings and it is the largest of the charangos. It is also known as charangón.

Rozenice - Istrian shawm (Croatia).

Ruan - a short-necked Chinese lute also known as moon guitar.

Rubab - Afghan plucked lute. It has a short neck with double chambers and three main playing strings made of animal gut or string. It also has several drone and sympathetic metal strings.  

Rub board - The southern Louisiana version of the washboard. Used by Cajun and Zydeco artists.

Rubel - Russian washboard.Ryuuteki – Japanese flute. 

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