A Tambura is a bulgarian long necked, fretted, bouzouki-like string instrument that comes in two styles 8-string (4 pairs) and 4-string (2 pairs), played with a plectrum. An Irish Bouzouki The bouzouki (gr. ... A plectrum (plural: plectra) is a device for plucking or strumming a stringed instrument. ...
The Bulgarian tambura is played two ways. As an accompaniment instrument, the tambura is tuned similarly to the first four strings of a guitar and played as such.
As a melody instument, the tambura is tuned in fifths with the strings that aren't being played for melody sounding as drones. See also: Music of Bulgaria Bulgarian music is part of the Balkan tradition, which stretches across Southeastern Europe, and has its own distinctive sound. ...
Thrace was an important center of this music, which was entirely underground until 1986, when a festival of this music, which became a biennial event, was inaugurated in the town of Stambolovo, and artists like Sever, Trakiîski Solisti, Shoumen and Juzhni Vetar became popular, especially clarinetist Ivo Papasov.
Ivo Papasov is a Bulgarian clarinetist, born in 1952 in Kurdzhali, Bulgaria.
Koprivshtitsa (Bulgarian: Копривщица) is a town in the Sofia region of Bulgaria, lying on the Topolnitsa river among the Sredna Gora mountains.
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