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Alhambra Bandurria 3C
AA2033

£495.00
£495.00
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Description

Alhambra Bandurria 3C

TOP                        Solid Red Cedar

SIDES & BACK       Laminated Mahogany

NECK                     Mahogany

FINGERBOARD      Indian Rosewood

MACHINE HEADS   Nickel Plated

Bandurria, also called mandurria, is a stringed musical instrument of the lute family, with a design derived from the cittern and guitar. The modern bandurria has a small, pear-shaped wooden body, a short neck, and a flat back, with five to seven (but usually six) paired courses of strings that are tuned g♯–c♯′–f♯′–b′–e″–a″ (beginning with the G♯ below middle C) and hitched to a guitarlike (tension) bridge. The tuning of the strings in fourths gives great facility and uniformity of fingering (and is not characteristic of the guitar, for example). The fingerboard has 12 fixed metal frets, and the instrument is traditionally played with a short, hard plectrum.

The bandurria, which is used in many styles of folk and popular music, was known in 16th-century Spain and traveled to Latin America; it is still used in Peru. It is known as the mandurria in the Balearic Islands of the Mediterranean Sea. A descendent of the bandurria is the bandola, a teardrop-shaped lute of Central and South America.

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