Introduction to Rabab
Pakhair (Welcome) , Starting with a bit of my introduction, I am an engineer graduated from GIKI currently working at Engro Corporation. Besides my business card introduction, I am an avid photographer, a wanderlust traveller and a melting heart for art. I started playing the Rabab a few months back and felt a lack of tutorials, videos and articles on the internet despite being in the 21 st century. Efforts to spread its audience and increase the knowledge base haven’t been put in place as the west did for their instruments like the guitar, the drums or the piano. In this regard I’ll be sharing my knowledge to give a heads-up for the new-comers. The first part is recognizing the strings and tuning them. Remember, there is no standard tuning for Rabab such as the EADGBE in the guitar, but there are a few rules for tuning. Figure 1: Strings and Surrs Figure 2: Strings on the Rabab If you hold the Rabab in the playing position the top most string corresponds to the 1 st...