kobza
Sign in to saveThe kobza (), also called bandura (), is a Ukrainian folk music instrument of the lute family (Hornbostel–Sachs classification number 321.321-5+6), a relative of the Central European mandora. The term kobza however, has also been applied to a number of other Eastern European instruments distinct from the Ukrainian kobza.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Kobza
- Instrument.image
- Kobza-krakow2.jpg
- Instrument.image_size
- 120
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- 18th century kobza
- Instrument.classification
- Chordophone
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 321.32-5
- Instrument.related
- Lute Mandora Torban Starosvitska bandura
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Construction
- History
- Etymology
- Other instruments known as kobza
- The modern Ukrainian kobza
- The fretless kobza
- The modern fretted kobza
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
The kobza (), also called bandura (), is a Ukrainian folk music instrument of the lute family (Hornbostel–Sachs classification number 321.321-5+6), a relative of the Central European mandora. The term kobza however, has also been applied to a number of other Eastern European instruments distinct from the Ukrainian kobza.
==Construction== The Ukrainian kobza was a traditionally gut-strung, lute-like stringed musical instrument with a body hewn from a single block of wood. Instruments with a staved assembly also exist. The kobza has a medium-length neck which may or may not have tied-on frets, which were usually made of gut. It was single-strung (sometimes also double-strung) and the strings were played with fingertips or occasionally with a plectrum threaded through a ring placed on the middle finger.
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