The pandura is a type of string instrument. A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ...

The ancient Greek pandoura (or pandora) was a long-necked lute with a small resonating chamber. Some versions may have had three strings: such an instrument was also known as the trichordon (McKinnon 1984:10). Donald Gill (1984) suggests that the larger instruments of this type were called mandore or mandola, while the smaller ones were called mandolin and mandolino. In the eighteenth century the pandurina (mandore) came to be referred to as the Milanese mandolin. A medieval era lute. ... A mandolin is a small, stringed musical instrument which is plucked, strummed or a combination of both. ...

References

• J.W. McKinnon "Pandoura" in New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments Vol 3 p 10 ed S. Sadie (Macmillan Press, London 1984).
• Gill, Donald 1984. [title missing]

See also

• Tambura
• Tanbur
• Bandura

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Pandura. ... Tanbur The tanbur (var. ... A Bandura and a Torban, at the Royal College of Music Julian Kytasty, plays a prima Chernihiv bandura The Experimental Bandura Тrio: Jurij Fedynsky, Julian Kytasty,and Michael Andrec Ken Bloom, plays a Kharkiv bandura Yuri Singalevych(Lviv) playing a diatonic bandura c. ...

External links

• Tanbur Society for the preservation and propagation of the tanbur.
• Hittite Old Tanbur Picture
• Pandoura: the greco-Roman lyre of antiquity