Image by metaliza01 on Pixabay · Pixabay License
pandura
Sign in to saveThe pandura (, pandoura) or pandore, an ancient Greek string instrument, belonged in the broad class of the lute and guitar instruments. Akkadians played similar instruments from the 3rd millennium BC. Ancient Greek artwork depicts such lutes from the 3rd or 4th century BC onward.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Pandura
- Instrument.image
- File:Muse with Πανδούρα Pandura Pandora Panduris ancient Greece old guitar Athens IV BCE siglo IV AEC.jpg
- Instrument.caption
- Muse playing a pandoura, detail of a bas relief from Mantineia, 4th century BC (NAMA)
- Instrument.classification
- Necked lutes String instruments
- Instrument.related
- Angélique (instrument) Archlute Barbat (lute) Bağlama (Saz) Baglamas Bouzouki Byzantine Lyra Charango Chitarra Italiana Dombra Domra Dutar Lute Mandolin Oud Pandura Panduri Phandar Tambura Tambouras Tanbur Tanbur (Turkish) Tembûr Theorbo Tiorbino
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- musical instrument
- Image
- Terracotta Figure of a Woman Playing a Pandoura, Cyprus, circa 300 BC.jpg
Show 2 more facts
- Commons category
- Pandura
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Ancient Greece
- Origins of the name ''pandura''
- Roman
- Mesopotamia
- Eastern variations
- Caucasus
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
The pandura (, pandoura) or pandore, an ancient Greek string instrument, belonged in the broad class of the lute and guitar instruments. Akkadians played similar instruments from the 3rd millennium BC. Ancient Greek artwork depicts such lutes from the 3rd or 4th century BC onward.
==Ancient Greece== The ancient Greek pandoura was a medium or long-necked lute with a small sound box, used by the ancient Greeks. It commonly had three strings: such an instrument was also known as the trichordon (three-stringed) (τρίχορδον, McKinnon 1984:10).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pandura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.