Pandura

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The pandura is a type of string instrument.

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.

[edit] References

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

[edit] See also

• Tambura
• Tanbur
• Bandura

[edit] External links

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