Pandura
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The pandura or pandore, an ancient Greek string instrument, belonged in the broad class of the lute and guitar instruments. Akkadians played similar instruments from the 3rd millennium BC. Ancient Gre
Muse playing a pandoura, detail of a bas relief from Mantineia, 4th century BC (NAMA)
Terracotta figure of a woman playing a pandoura, ca. 300 BC, Cyprus (British Museum)
Ancient Greek Tanagra figurine, 200 BC.
Short lute-family instrument on a Hellenistic-style plaster sculpture made in Hadda, Afghanistan and now at the Guimet Museum in Paris. Estimated date 1st-2nd century AD.
Panduri
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The panduri is a traditional Georgian three-string plucked instrument common in all regions of Eastern Georgia: such as Pshav-Khevsureti, Tusheti, Kakheti and Kartli.
Pandura
…such an instrument was also known as the trichordon (three-stringed) (τρίχορδον, McKinnon 1984:10). Its descendants still exist as the Kartvelian panduri, the Greek tambouras and bouzouki, the North African kuitra, the Eastern Mediterranean saz and the Balkan tamburica. They remained popular also in the…
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Panduri from front.
Back view of panduri with body made of ribs
Front view of panduri with body made of ribs