Tambur

Tambur [*tanbūr], 1. long-necked lute of Afghanistan, with hemispheric body, fretted neck, and both melody strings and sympathetic strings. The melody strings are inserted in frontal pegs; the sympathetic ones are inserted into the neck by lateral pegs. Also called rabāb; 2. bowed chordophone of the S. African Griqua, a European-inspired fiddle with skin belly. Cf. velviool (116). Kirby, Percival R. The Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa. London, 1934.