Bulgarian tambura

The Bulgarian tambura is a long-necked string instrument of the tambouras family, as its name suggests.

It is a traditional folk instrument of Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia. It has four pairs of steel strings, a shallow, flat body, a long, narrow neck and fixed frets. It is played much like the bouzouki, with the same plectrum and the same hold, and many of its techniques are similar to those of the boulgari or the saz (for example, rapid tremolo on the strings following the sung melody).