Regal Musical Instrument Company Regal Musical Instrument Company The Regal Musical Instrument Company was established in 1908 in Chicago. By the 1930s, they were one of the largest manufacturers of musical instruments in the world. Regal specialised in: Regal was heavily involved in the production of resonator fretted instruments from their first development until 1941, manufacturing components and bodies for both the National String Instrument Corporation and the Dobro Manufacturing Company and producing whole instruments which sold under many brand names including "Dobro". The bodies of their Laminated bellied guitars were particularly suited to resonator conversion. Production of resonator guitars ceased in 1941, and
Rubab (instrument) is attached partway down the neck, similar to the fifth string of the American banjo. Rubab (instrument) Rubab, robab or rabab (, , , , "rubāb", Tajik and Uzbek "рубоб") is a lute-like musical instrument originating from central Afghanistan. The "rubab" is mainly used by Pashtun, Tajik, Turkish, Kashmiri, Baluch, Azerbaijani, and Iranian Kurdish classical musicians. Rubab is one of the national musical instruments of Afghanistan. It has "proliferated throughout West, Central, South and Southeast Asia." Rbab () is an Arabic word. According to the Arabic diacritics, vowels between consonants - apart from "Alif" (Aleph) are not written but articulates.