Balkan tambura

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Tambura

Bulgarian tambura
String instrument
Classification	Plucked string instrument
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	321.322
Developed	Serbia,Bulgaria and Macedonia

The tambura is a stringed instrument that is played as a folk instrument in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Serbia (especially Vojvodina) and Turkey. It has doubled steel strings and is played with a plectrum, in the same manner as a mandolin.