The word ‘Rabab’ is not alien to south Asians. The plucked stringed lute with a deep tone, native to Afghanistan and parts of India, often called rubab, has found significance in our music. Sufi poet ...
American musician Larry Porter plays the rebab, a short necked lute with 18 strings. The traditional Afghan instrument has shaped Porter's music since the 1970s. "In those days there was no such ...