Category:Bandora (instrument)

**bandora**
	plucked string-instrument
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Instance of	palazzo;
Subclass of	plucked string instrument; necked box lute;
Part of	Palazzo Besta;
Location	Teglio, Province of Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy
Street address	Via Besta, 4;
Discoverer or inventor	John Rose, sr;
Heritage designation	Italian national heritage;
Different from	bandura;
	46° 10′ 13.49″ N, 10° 03′ 39.02″ E
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See also category: Orpharion.
For similar name instruments, See also categories: Pandura, Bandura, Bandurria (instrument), Bandora (instrument), Bandola, Bandolim and Bandolin.

Lutes - bandora. ATLAS of Plucked Instruments. "The bandora (or pandora) is in fact a slightly bigger version of the orpharion, and probably designed earlier. It misses the thin top course. The strings were not gut, but metal (wire and twisted brass), just like on the orpharion. The bandora was probably designed by John Rose in England around 1560 and became soon (especially in England) a popular instrument untill about the second half of the 17th century."