Nowadays the term tanbur (or tambur) is applied to a variety of distinct and related long-necked lutes used in art and folk traditions. Similar or identical instruments are also known by other terms."

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). The player is called a tamburî. [2]

Jul 26, 2020 · Tanbur (also known as tambur) is one of the most important instrument in the Turkish maqam. It is a stringed instrument that is played with a plectrum or a bow and a tanbur player is called a “tanburi”. It constitues as one of the four instrument of the basic quartet of Turkish classical music.

Tambur, Türk müziğinde yaygın olarak kullanılan telli bir sazdır. Tamburun kökeni, hangi tarihte ortaya çıktığı bilinmemektedir. Sümerce "pantur"dan geldiği hakkında bilgiler mevcuttur. Araplar, kelimenin "kuzunun kuyruğu" anlamına gelen "dumba-i bara"dan geldiğini söylerler.

The original two-stringed Kurdish/Persian tanbur (aka, tanbour, tambur) is the forefather of all stringed instruments in the world and dates back many thousands of years. The tanbur has a deep pear shaped body with a long neck.

Today the tambur, described by European travellers (such as Charles Fonton and Toderini) as a visible reflection of the Turkish musical system with its fret links on the stem, is probably the only instrument solely used in Türkiye.

May 12, 2019 · The Tambur (Uyghur: تانبۇر, Tambur) is an Uyghur and Uzbek stringed instrument. It has a long history, a simple shape, beautiful sound, and a unique local style, often used for solo performances.

Dec 13, 2020 · All About Turkish TanburAs we have already explained above, Tanbur (or tambur) is one of the oldest Turkish instruments to date and it has a very important r...

Tambur, which is also known as the Tanbur or Tambura, is a stringed musical instrument that has a long neck and a wooden body and known in the Turkish music industry. It has a long history that dates back to the times of the Ottoman Empire though the modern version has been traced to be inexistence around 17 century AD.

Ṭanbūr, long-necked fretted lute played under various names from the Balkans to northwestern Asia. Resembling the long lutes of ancient Egypt and Babylon as well as the ancient Greek pandoura, it has a deep pear-shaped body, some 1 to 4 …