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‖ tamboura|ˈtæmbərə, tæmˈbʊərə|
Also 6 tambora, 7 tamera, 9 tumboora, tamboora, tambur(a), tanpoora, etc.
[app. ad. Pers. ṭanbūr, Arab. ṭunbūr, in same sense.]
a. A long-necked lute of the Near East and Balkans, with a pear-shaped body and a fretted neck. Cf. pandora2, tamburitza.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. i. 69 b, A thing very like vnto a Cittern, which they call Tambora. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 276 He would needs play on the Tamera,..an Instrument us'd by the Persians instead of the Lute. 1828Asiatic Costumes 13 The tumboora in shape resembles the guitar more than any other instrument. 1909M. E. Durham High Albania vi. 141 A man..came in with a tamboora and played.., his fingers plucking strange trills..from the slim, tinkling instrument. 1937P. Thornton Dead Puppets Dance i. 19, I contented myself with drumming on the floor..and clapping the rhythms of the tambora players. 1975L. Picken Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey iii. 220 This orientation..corresponds to one of the orientations adopted in preparing blocks of wood for Bulgarian tambura. 1983Listener 20 Oct. 29/1 Saturday night's programme of Turkish music..was a continuous performance by the burbling, throaty flute called ney and the harsh, plucked instrument called the tanbur.
b. A long-necked fretless instrument of the lute family with a round body and usu. four wire strings plucked by the fingers, and used to provide a drone accompaniment in Indian music.
1864Engel Mus. Anc. Nat. 51 The tamboura..is at present in use, especially in Persia, Hindoostan, and Asiatic Turkey. 1875― Musical Instruments v. 47 The Hindus..have also the divinity Ganesa, the god of Wisdom, who is represented as a man with the head of an elephant, holding a tamboura in his hands. 1891C. R. Day Music & Mus. Instruments S. India vii. 103 The vina, the tamburi or tamburu-vina, and the kinneri still remain just as they are described in the ancient books. 1921H. A. Popley Mus. India vii. 110 The Tambūr is perhaps the most common stringed instrument in India. 1966Punch 23 Nov. 770/2 The uncanny buzzing drone of a tambura, a four-stringed Indian instrument that looks like a bloated outsize wooden barometer. 1970Daily Tel. 21 Sept. 9/1 She was singing..meanwhile plucking steadily at the drone-strings of her tanpoora. 1971Illustr. Weekly India 25 Apr. 35/1 With Lata Mangeshkar sitting holding the tanpura, these inspirations would be shaped and sung and recorded. 1977N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Dec. 41/3 Ram Dass had disembarked barefoot, wearing a long white robe and carrying a tamboura for chanting. 1980A. Desai Clear Light of Day iv. 178 The tanpura player..strummed the tanpura strings as if in a mesmerised state. 1981Ld. Harewood Tongs & Bones xvii. 264 He was surrounded by two other vocalists (one also playing the tambura). |