Tambura may refer to:
Musical string instruments
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Tanbur
The term ''Tanbur'' ( fa, تنبور, ) can refer to various long-necked string instruments originating in Mesopotamia, Southern or Central Asia. According to the ''New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', "terminology presents a compli ...
, a category of long-necked, string instrument originating in the Southern or Central Asia (Mesopotamia and Persia/Iran)
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Tamboori The tamboori (also called a tambra) is a long-necked bowed string instrument found in Indian music. The tamboori is very similar to the tanpura, despite being smaller and played with a bow. A tamboori is played as a melodic instrument, unlike the ...
, an Indian melodic instrument similar to a Tanpura
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Tanpura
The tanpura (), also referred to as tambura and tanpuri, is a long-necked plucked string instrument, originating in India, found in various forms in Indian music.
It does not play melody, but rather supports and sustains the melody of an ...
, a stringed drone instrument played in India
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Kurdish tanbur
Kurdish tanbur ( ku, تهمبوور, translit=Tembûr) or tanbour a fretted string instrument, is an initial and main form of the tanbūr instrument family, used by the Kurds. It is highly associated with the Yarsan (Ahl-e Haqq) religion in ...
, used in Yarsan rituals
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Turkish tambur
The ''tambur'' (spelled in keeping with TDK conventions) is a fretted string instrument of Turkey and the former lands of the Ottoman Empire. Like the ney, the armudi (lit. pear-shaped) kemençe and the kudüm, it constitutes one of the four in ...
, an instrument played in Turkey
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Yaylı tambur, an instrument played in Turkey
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Tanbūra (lyre)
The tanbūra or "Kissar" is a bowl lyre of East Africa and the Middle East. It takes its name from the Persian ''tanbur'' via the Arabic ''tunbur'' (), though this term refers to long-necked lutes. The instrument probably originated in Upper E ...
, an instrument played in East Africa and the Middle East
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Tambura saz, string instrument from the Bağlama family from Turkey
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Balkan tambura
The tambura is a stringed instrument that is played as a folk instrument in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia,
and Serbia (especially Vojvodina). It has doubled steel strings and is played with a plectrum, in the same m ...
, an instrument used in the Balkan region (primarily used in Bulgaria)
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Tamburica
Tamburica ( or ) or tamboura ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", tamburica, тамбурица, little tamboura; hu, tambura; el, Ταμπουράς, Tampourás; sometimes written tamburrizza or tamburitza), refers to a family of long-necked lute ...
, any member of a family of long-necked lutes popular in Eastern and Central Europe
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Tambouras
The tambouras ( el, ταμπουράς ) is a Greek traditional string instrument of Byzantine origin. It has existed since at least the 10th century, when it was known in Assyria and Egypt. At that time, it might have between two and six strings ...
, an instrument played in Greece
Other
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Tambura River, Romania
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Tumbura
Tumbura, sometimes spelled Tambora or Tambura, is a town in South Sudan.
Location
The town is located in Tambura County, Western Equatoria, in the western part of South Sudan, near the International borders with the Democratic Republic of the Con ...
, a town in South Sudan
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Tumbura Airport
Tumbura Airport is an airport serving Tumbura in South Sudan.
Location
Tumbura Airport is located in Tumbura County in Gbudwe, in the town of Tumbura, near the International borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central Afric ...
, an airport serving the above town
* Tambur, an old name for
Hemşin
Hemşin ( Armenian: Համշէն ''Hamshen'' or Համամաշէն ''Hamamashen'', literally "Hamam's Hamlet"; Laz and Georgian: ზუგა ''Zuga''), is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 57 km from t ...
, a town in Rize Province, Turkey
* "Tambura", a hidden track from P.O.D.'s album ''
The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
''The Fundamental Elements of Southtown'' is the third studio album and major label debut of Christian metal band P.O.D., released on August 24, 1999. It went on to become the band's first platinum album, peaking at No. 51 on the ''Billboard'' ...
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Bandura
A bandura ( uk, банду́ра) is a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often referred to by the term kobza. Early instruments (c. 1700) had 5 to 12 strings ...
, a Ukrainian instrument
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Dombra
The ''dombra'', also known as ''dombyra'' ( kz, домбыра, uz, dombira, ba, думбыра) is a long-necked Kazakh, Uzbek and Bashkir lute and a musical string instrument. The dombyra shares certain characteristics with the komuz a ...
, an instrument in Kazakhstan, Siberia and Afghanistan
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Domra
The ''domra'' (Cyrillic: до́мра, ) is a long-necked Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian folk string instrument of the lute family with a round body and three or four metal strings.
History
The first known mention of domra is in ''Admonit ...
, a Russian instrument
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Pandura
The pandura ( grc, πανδοῦρα, ''pandoura'') or pandore, an ancient string instrument, belonged in the broad class of the lute and guitar instruments. Akkadians played similar instruments from the 3rd millennium BC. Ancient Greek artwork d ...
, an instrument played in Ancient Greece and other ancient civilisations from the Mediterranean basin
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Tambora (disambiguation) Tambora may refer to:
Music
*Tambora (drum), different types of percussion instruments
* Tambour (guitar technique) can also be spelled tambora
Geography
*Mount Tambora, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa
**The 1815 eruption of Mount Ta ...
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Tambourine (disambiguation)
The tambourine is a percussion instrument.
Tambourine or tamborine may also refer to: Geography
*Tamborine, Queensland, locality in Australia Music
*Tambourine Studios, Swedish recording studio
*Tambourine (band), Dutch pop band
*The★tambouri ...
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