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bandore
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ban·dore  (bndôr, -dr) also ban·do·ra (bn-dôr, -dr)
n.
A Renaissance musical instrument resembling a guitar. Also called pandore.

[Portuguese bandurra, from Late Latin pandra, from Greek pandoura.]

bandore [bænˈdɔː ˈbændɔː]
n
(Music / Instruments) a 16th-century plucked musical instrument resembling a lute but larger and fitted with seven pairs of metal strings Also called pandore pandora
[from Spanish bandurria, from Late Latin pandūra three-stringed instrument, from Greek pandoura]


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4) focuses on the role of the gentry as patrons and performers, especially on fashionable instruments like virginals, lutes, gitterns, and bandoras.
Performers on the lute, cittern, bandora, and lyra viol used to playing from tablature might prefer versions of their parts in that format, although regular scoring is of course more accessible to scholars and non-specialists.
 
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