Pandoura

Pandoura [?Sum. pan tur, small bow], long-necked lute of ancient Greece and Rome, similar to that of W. Asia and Egypt, with small body, in late classical times sometimes portrayed as spade-shaped, with fretted neck wider than that of earlier forms and devoid of tuning pegs. Pollux (in his Onomastikon) mentions its 3 strings, whence its Gk. name: trichordon. The pandoura was but rarely encountered in Greece and in Rome, but it lived on elsewhere as bandurria, tanbūr, tanbura, etc. (170). Sachs…