Balkan tambura

Tambura
Bulgarian tambura
String instrument
Classification Plucked string instrument
Hornbostel–Sachs classification321.322
DevelopedSerbia,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.