The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word REBEC
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More clues leading to the result REBEC
- Something played live in playing field
- One of the viols – who’d mutiny with base doubled?
- Old music-maker‘s
- Something to restore, because it’s an old instrument
- Old instrument has gone into fire – be careful!
- Old instrument providing backing for popular reggae and superb dance music
- Damage half of cerebellum with old instrument
- Old music-maker is dissident Liberal turning Conservative
- In miniature, because an instrument
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What does REBEC mean?
REBEC noun- An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras.