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Greece

Instruments

Name: Tzouras

Type: Plucked > Chordophone

Region: Greece.

Source: Lark in the morning, year 2003.

Description: The tzouras is a medium sized lute in between the bouzouki and the smallest the "baglama". Most of the tzouras have 6-strings although some tzouras do have 8-strings this is considered quite recent for the tzouras and is still not as common as the 6-stringed tzouras.

 

Tzouras Tunings
  D-A-D
  G-A-D
  G-D-G

 

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