TANBUR(DRUM)
The term Tanbur, Tanbūr, Tanbura, Tambur, Tambura or Tanboor (Persian: )ت ن بورcan refer to various long-necked, string
instrument originating in the Southern or Central Asia (Mesopotamia and Persia/Iran).[1] According to the New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "terminology presents a complicated situation. Nowadays the term tanbur (or tambur) is
applied to a variety of distinct and related long-necked string instruments used in art and folk traditions in Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Turkey, Tajikestan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan. Similar or identical instruments are also known by other terms."