{"id":1978,"date":"2023-10-29T19:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afghanrubab.com\/?page_id=1978"},"modified":"2023-11-23T17:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:50:48","slug":"le-rubab-de-hulbuk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.afghanrubab.com\/en\/le-rubab-de-hulbuk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rub\u0101b of Hulbuk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image: Representation of the rub\u0101b of Hulbuk (Khulbuk).<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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In the 11th<\/sup> century, the citadel of Hulbuk, or Khulbuk, featured an astonishing fresco showing two female musicians at play. This citadel is located in the village of Kurbanshaid, in the Vose district of the Khalton region, in the south-west of present-day Tajikistan. The citadel was no less than the capital of Khuttal, a small Iranian principality in the empire of the White Huns. The architectural elements and artefacts found, such as ceramics and coins, have made it possible to estimate the date of the building: between 970 and 1060. As for the fresco, it is likely to be closer to the 11th<\/sup> century. Unearthed in 1983, it showed two instruments being played: a rub\u0101b and a chang,<\/em> a kind of harp without a pillar. This fresco is the earliest to depict an asymmetrical bow, showing an evolution in the instrumental gesture of bowed strings.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Image: Representation of the possible cavity of the rub\u0101b of Hulbuk.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Although it is impossible to certify this, it is possible that the rub\u0101b of Hulbuk has a complex cavity made up of three chambers: lower, middle and upper. This type of cavity can still be found today on rub\u0101b from the Pamir, such as the tanbur<\/em> from the Pamir. The measurements used to reconstruct the instrument were based on the elements of the fresco that are still visible, as well as on the graphic records made at the time of its discovery.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Montage: Superimposing the drawing or reconstruction of Hulbuk's rub\u0101b on a photo of the fresco.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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There is not much available of the Hulbuk fresco. However, a rare black and white photo shows some of the elements that make up the handle. There are vertical lines on the inside of the neck. These appear to be frets. If this hypothesis is confirmed, we would be able to say that frets were already present in the 11th<\/sup> century and that this type of instrument could be played with both a bow and a plectrum.<\/p>

For more information, see the article (in French) published in the journal Arts Asiatiques, no.
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Image: Representation of the chang<\/em> of the Hulbuk fresco<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image : Repr\u00e9sentation du rub\u0101b de Hulbuk (Khulbuk). La citadelle de Hulbuk, ou Khulbuk, pr\u00e9sentait au 11i\u00e8me si\u00e8cle une fresque \u00e9tonnante sur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1978","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanrubab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanrubab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanrubab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanrubab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanrubab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanrubab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanrubab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1978\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanrubab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}