Arab form of it, known as the rebec, is represented on p. 113, Fig. 23.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

For instance, a viola da gamba is sort of cello, and a rebec is a kind of violin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Age of Publicity #7] Reference

The oldest type of this instrument in use appears to have been the form known as the rebec, the Arab form, which came into Europe in the time of the crusades.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

Your rebec may be lying safe enough among the bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

Easy to carry, better than a rebec unless you're a master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potter's Field]

This rebec had more than one master before it came to you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

No help for it, this was all that remained of the lost rebec.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

'He had his rebec in a linen bag on his shoulder,' said Cadfael.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

'My rebec - I had it with me in the bushes, in a linen bag for my shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

I must get him to try his hand on rebec or organetto, and see what he can do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

The ruin of his rebec also reposed in the corner of the porch next the cloister.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

But she laid down the rebec on her knees, and looked up at B-nezet with a fiercely thoughtful face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

What was beneath, she thought, he must have stowed away when she went back to the guesthall for the rebec and the mandora.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

"I have a thing to tell you," he said, finding Daalny frowning over the tuning of a rebec under one of the torches in the hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

Sometimes two spoke to different effect while the others played flutes they had carved of thighbones, or the three-stringed rebec that shrieks like a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

The flutes and panpipes were easily carried; rebec and mandora had their own padded bags for protection, though the bow of the rebec had to be packed with care.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

'Well, since you won't stay and be celibate here among us,' said the precentor cheerfully, 'here is your own rebec ready for playing, and a good leather bag to carry it in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

It was Rizzio's skill upon the rebec that had first attracted Mary's attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference

Gregory Knowles (dulcimer), Robert Cooper (fiddle, rebec), William Hunt (fiddle).    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

I haven't tried a rebec, altho 'I do play viola da gambe -- they aren't that hard if you already play violin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

The «training» takes place to the accompaniment of music played on the traditional string instrument, the rebec.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathimerini English Edition : Print Edition : 27/6/09] Reference

Last modified: Sep. 9, 2008 at 8: 40 PM life as a touring musician, Maud Powell, and funky fiddles like the rebec.    From Wordnik.com.  [Violinist.com] Reference

The rebec was not known in Arabia until nearly two centuries after we find the crwth mentioned by Venance Fortunatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

A few musical instruments lay about; one of the old lists tells us of a lute, and guitars inlaid with ivory and enamel, and 'an old rebec' much out of repair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Book-Collectors] Reference

A rebec with three strings; the other is a small violin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

(1520-1580), a viol and rebec maker of picturesque Cremona, began to make violins, doubtless to fill the orders of his patrons.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music] Reference

I mended his rebec for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

I have his rebec in for restringing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

The body of the rebec was pear-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

Giles Lewin (vielle, rebec).    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

Pavlo Beznosiuk (vielle, rebec).    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

(1) Three-stringed viol or rebec.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

(3) Angels with rebec and zither.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference

Kecskés, long-necked lute, koboz, rebec, bass rebec, gusla, jew's harp.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

The following were the names of the instruments: cittern, bagpipe, clarion, rebec, psaltery, syrinx, sackbut, regals, gittern, shalm, timbral, and cymbals!.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

The Arab apparition in history -- their taste for poetry -- competitive contests of poetry and song -- encouragement of literature -- rebec -- eoud; santir.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference