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instruments called tambura

Page history last edited by Andrew Alder 14 years, 12 months ago

This is a waffle page, not a tunings hierarchy page. So the linking rules of the nierarchy may not apply.

 

Tambura is a particularly problematical English name. It may refer to:

 

  • The tanpura of India, similar to a sitar but with only plucked drone strings and no frets or sympathetic strings. This seems to be the most common usage, and the one used in Wikipedia, and it's what La Bella make their TM40 Tambura string set to fit.

 

  • The tamburica, a three or four-coursed fretted lute from the Balkans, or the tanbur, a family of lutes of which the tamburica is a member. This is according to Groves 2001, and is repeated in Wikipedia too.

 

  • According to the 1995 Groves, it's a bowl lyre of Egypt, the Sudan, Djibouti, North Yemen, southern Iraq and the Gulf states. This definition is repeated by JustStrings, see below.

 

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