Uzbek) rabab
This Uzbek rabab has only 3 courses and usually no resonance strings. It is less popular than the kashgar rabab or the (Azari) tar.这种乌兹别克热瓦普只有3组弦而且没有共鸣弦,TA比喀什热瓦普或者波斯塔尔使用得更少。
The body of the Uzbek rabab is not made by carving a solid block of mulberry wood, but by building it from separate pieces of wood : some curved pieces for the sides, one for the join under the neck and two for the side ridges, plus a flat top and a flat back.制作材料:桑木
The lower half of the body has a (quite thick) piece of skin glued to it, the top half is covered with part of the fingerboard. The neck is joined to the body and the top of the neck is carved as tuning head, with the back in a flat backwards curl. 构造方式:省略
There are 5 tuning pegs (violin style), 2 on the right, 3 on the left side of the open tuning head. Sometimes they use (guitar-like) tuning machines. Some rababs have resonance strings, similar to the Afghan rabab (see under).有五个调音旋钮,2个在右边,3个在左边,有用小提琴木质旋钮也有用吉他金属旋钮的。
The thin fingerboard has about 20 thick wooden inlayed frets, slightly curved, in a western scale. 20品
The 5 nylon strings are in 3 courses : first and second double, third single.
Tuning is probably : c gg c'c'.调音方式可能是 c gg c‘c’(五度加四度定弦)
The strings run over a loose wooden bridge on the lower skin, to 5 pins fixed to the bottom of the body.
There is no decoration, like on the Afghan rabab. The complete instrument is varnished, with the neck in a lighter, clear varnish.
Playing the Uzbek rabab is similar to playing the Afghan rabab, with a plectrum, accompanying songs and dance music.