Hello Todd: Re: Small Tambura Shapes

The Indian version (of the small Balkan: Prim or Bisernica) is almond shaped with a long finger board. The Balkan version is also the same shape. However the Balkan version has another shape like a very very tiny Spanish Guitar (with a medium length fingerboard).

Most Balkan Prims or Bisernice have 6 strings and some have 4 strings. For real high solo melodies or Kolo dances, the four stringed version is used because they never play very much in the low register : (the thicker lower strings are eliminated).

Bozidar

Zdravo Geoffe: 6-VIII-2009

Drago mi je da smo se upoznali na internetu. Jasam rodjen u Hreljin - jedno malo selo na sjevernih kraj Dalmaciji. Govorim tesko ( i smisno ) po Primorski. Moji roditelji isto zivu na otoci blizu grad “Rijeka”. Moja Familija je, prije 40 godine, poselila se u Chicago.
Cital sam da si zivil u Ameriki – u ko mesto ??

Try the following web site, which I just found for viewing Serbian Folk Music Scores:

www.chem.bg.ac.yu/~srdjan/n...me_en.html

Try the following web site for listening to Serbian Folk music:

www.dunav.org.il/balkan_mu...rbian.html

Try the following web site for listening to Croatian ( Slavonski Brod ) - pick a year, pick a tune and then a long wait for your music player to respond.

www.brodfest.com/5.htm

Prijatno... Bozidar