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 Rawap front view | |
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | راۋاپ | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 熱瓦甫 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 热瓦甫 | ||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 熱瓦普 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 热瓦普 | ||||||||||
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| Second alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 拉瓦波 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 拉瓦波 | ||||||||||
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| Third alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 喇巴卜 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 喇巴卜 | ||||||||||
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The rawap or rubab (Tajik: Рубоб, Uzbek: rubob) is an Eastern Iranian fretted plucked long-necked stringed instrument also used in folk music by residents of the Uyghur autonomous region of Xinjiang, Western China. [1] The history of the instrument dates back to the Ancient Iran including modern Tajikistan and spreading in the 14th century to Turkic cultures including southern Xinjiang. It is an instrument of the Tajiks also used in Uzbekistan. It's particularly associated with Tajik music and culture including Tajiks of Bukhara and Samarkand.
- ^ "The Stringed Instrument Database: P-R". stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com.
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