rebec
noun
a Renaissance fiddle with a pear-shaped body tapering into a neck that ends in a sickle-shaped or scroll-shaped pegbox.
rebeck
-
a variation of
rebec.
Example Sentences
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Wherefore you with your lute, and I to play with you on my rebeck, will please them greatly.
From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Ernest Rhys
The improvised names of the musicians are pointed enough; Simon 'Catling,' referring to the material of his viol strings; Hugh 'Rebeck,' the rebeck being the ancient English fiddle with three strings.
From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Edward W. (Edward Woodall) Naylor
Thy endearing ways have utterly disarmed me; thou hast made prize of my heart with thy rebeck.
From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg
And as she had been grieving these many days, the dwarfs at her feet tried to cheer her with simple airs on the flute, the flageolet, the rebeck, and the cymbals.
From Honey-Bee 1911 by Mrs. John Lane
In the sixteenth century the three-stringed rebeck received a fourth string and became the violin, the most expressive of all musical instruments.
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
