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Northern and central-Indian Hindustani musicians favor the term tanpura (often used within the context of languages such as Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Sindhi, Punjabi, etc.), whereas southern and Carnatic musicians normally prefer tambura (for example, in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, or Telugu); tanpuri is a smaller variant of the instrument ...
The tambura is a stringed instrument that is played as a folk instrument in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Serbia (especially Vojvodina) and Turkey. It has doubled steel strings and is played with a plectrum, in the same manner as a mandolin .
In the Balkans, 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 manner as a mandolin.
There is a view that the first tambura orchestra was formed in Hungary in the 19th century. [8] The instruments' names came from the Hungarian names of the musical instruments of the symphony orchestra ("cselló" meaning cello , "bőgő" meaning contrabass ) and from the Hungarian Gipsy bands ( bőgős , prím , kontra ).
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Croatian tamburitza (tam•bu•rit•za) is a folk instrument played with a tambura (cousins with Russian balalaika and the Italian mandolin) and is accompanied with a dance. The origin is most commonly thought to be introduced from the Turks by way of Bosnia between the 14th and 16th century.
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The tambur is a fretted string instrument of Turkey and the former lands of the Ottoman Empire. [1] There are two variants, one of which is played with a plectrum (mızraplı tambur) and the other with a bow (yaylı tambur).