title: Tambura (instrument)
text: # Tambura (instrument)
  
  Tambura may refer to:
  
  * Tanbur, a category of long-necked, string instrument originating in the Southern or Central Asia (Mesopotamia and Persia/Iran)
     * Tanpura, a stringed drone instrument played in India
     * Kurdish tanbur, used in Yarsan rituals
     * Turkish tambur, instrument played in Turkey
     * Yaylı tambur, also played in Turkey
     * Tamboori, an Indian melodic instrument similar to a Tanpura
  * Balkan tambura, instruments from Macedonia and Bulgaria
  * Tamburica, any member of a family of long-necked lutes popular in Eastern and Central Europe
  * Tambouras, played in Greece
  * Tanbūra (lyre), played in East Africa and the Middle East
  