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'''Rubab''' or '''robab''' ({{lang-fa|رُباب}} ''rubāb'', [[Urdu language|Urdu]] And [[Pashto]] ''رباب'' [[Tajik language|Tajik]] and [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]] ''рубоб'') is a [[lute]]-like musical instrument originally from [[Afghanistan]]<ref>David Courtney, ''Rabab'', Chandra & David's Homepage, [http://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/rabab.html LINK]</ref> but is also played in the neighbouring countries, especially [[Pakistan]]. It derives its name from the Arab ''[[rebab]]'' which means "played with a [[bow (music)|bow]]" but the Central Asian instrument is plucked, and is distinctly different in construction. The ''rubab'' is mainly used by [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]], [[Tajik people|Tajik]], [[Kashmiri]] and [[Iran]]ian [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] classical musicians.
The rubab is a short-necked [[lute]] whose body is carved out of a single piece of wood, with a membrane, covering the hollow bowl of the sound-chamber, upon which the bridge is positioned. It has three melody strings tuned in [[Perfect fourth|fourths]], three drone strings and 11 or 12 [[sympathetic strings]]. The instrument is made from the trunk of a [[mulberry]] tree, the head from an animal skin such as a goat skin, and the strings either gut (from the intestines of young goats, brought to the size of thread) or [[nylon]].
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