bandora

The modern bandurria has a small, pear-shaped wooden body, a short neck, and a flat back, with five to seven (but usually six) paired courses of strings that are tuned g♯–c♯′–f♯′–b′–e″–a″ (beginning with the G♯ below middle C) and hitched to a guitarlike (tension) bridge.

The bandurria is a plucked chordophone from Spain, similar to the mandolin and bandola, primarily used in Spanish folk music, but also found in former Spanish colonies.

bandura bandura, also called kobza, a stringed instrument of the psaltery family considered the national musical instrument of Ukraine.

bandura A bandura (Ukrainian: бандура) is a Ukrainian plucked-string folk-instrument. It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often called a kobza. Early instruments ( c. 1700) had 5 to 12 strings and resembled lutes.

Peru Bandurria is a large archaeological site on the Huaura River in Peru that has been dated to 4,000 BC. It is located about 3 km south of the city of Huacho, in Huacho District, Huaura Province, Lima Region.

The laud has a larger body than the bandurria and the body meets the neck at the 12th fret. Both instruments are tuned in 4ths. The strings are grouped in pairs which are technically called courses. They are both traditionally tuned G# G#, C#C#, F#F#,bb, ee, aa--from the 12th to the 1st string.

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The laud has a larger body than the bandurria and the body meets the neck at the 12th fret. Both instruments are tuned in 4ths. The strings are grouped in pairs which are technically called courses. They are both traditionally tuned G# G#, C#C#, F#F#,bb, ee, aa--from the 12th to the 1st string.

bandura The modern bandura has between 20 and 65 strings and is tuned like a piano rather than a guitar. The concert variety (the kind played by the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus) has levers that allow the Bandurist to quickly change keys during a performance.

Trembita Trembita. This unique and distinctive wind instrument was listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest musical instrument in the world. The Trembita is made of solid wood and looks like a tube length of which is up to 4 meters.

*Note: A sopilka is known as the Ukrainian flute but made out of wood!

Ukrainian folk musical instruments are known since ancient times and have deep roots in the national culture. On the murals of St. Sofia Cathedral (11th century) in Kyiv musicians that played on the different stringed, percussion, and wind instruments are depicted.