Sharghy

Sharghy [Turk. *sharqī], tanbūr of Croatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, with elongated body and 5 or 7 strings. These are tuned (relative pitch) f1 f1 c1 g1 g1, with one shorter string, about half length, tuned an oct. above the lowest or the highest string. The same instr. exists in Bulgaria. Cf. sharqī (89, 144). Sort by:DefaultTitleDateAscendingDescending Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th edition. London, 1954. Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Kassel and Basel, 1949.